# Mark 8.17

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**Book:** [Mark](/codex/john-mark/) · NASB95

## Immediate context (±2 verses)

**ASV** ([ASV](/codex/asv/))
> 15. <span class="rl-speech">And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.</span> 16. <span class="rl-speech">And they reasoned one with another, saying, We have no bread.</span>
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> **17. And Jesus perceiving it saith unto them, <span class="rl-speech">Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? do ye not yet perceive, neither understand? have ye your heart hardened?</span>**
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> 18. <span class="rl-speech">Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?</span> 19. <span class="rl-speech">When I brake the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.</span> (Mark 8:15-19, ASV)

**WEB** ([WEB](/codex/web/))
> 15. <span class="rl-speech">He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”</span> 16. <span class="rl-speech">They reasoned with one another, saying, “It’s because we have no bread.”</span>
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> **17. <span class="rl-speech">Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet, neither understand? Is your heart still hardened?</span>**
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> 18. <span class="rl-speech">Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?</span> 19. When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.” (Mark 8:15-19, WEB)

**KJV** ([KJV](/codex/kjv/))
> 15. <span class="rl-speech">And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.</span> 16. <span class="rl-speech">And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.</span>
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> **17. And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, <span class="rl-speech">Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? perceive ye not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened?</span>**
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> 18. <span class="rl-speech">Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?</span> 19. <span class="rl-speech">When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.</span> (Mark 8:15-19, KJV)

**YLT** ([YLT](/codex/ylt/))
> 15. <span class="rl-speech">and he was charging them, saying, 'Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod,'</span> 16. <span class="rl-speech">and they were reasoning with one another, saying, 'Because we have no loaves.'</span>
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> **17. <span class="rl-speech">And Jesus having known, saith to them, 'Why do ye reason, because ye have no loaves? do ye not yet perceive, nor understand, yet have ye your heart hardened?</span>**
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> 18. <span class="rl-speech">Having eyes, do ye not see? and having ears, do ye not hear? and do ye not remember?</span> 19. <span class="rl-speech">When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' they say to him, 'Twelve.'</span> (Mark 8:15-19, YLT)

## Setting

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## Theological reading

_Patristic / early-church-father exegesis, to be added._

## Key words

_Theologically-loaded Greek or Hebrew words in this verse may have entries in the lexicon. Curated to roughly 100 contested terms across the corpus, not every word; see Lexicon Roadmap._

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## Quoted in

**Concepts:**

- [Jesus Said](/codex/jesus-said/), via [Mark 8.12-21](/codex/mark-8-12-21/)

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## Why these four translations

ris3n chose ASV, WEB, KJV, and YLT for two reasons together. They are the **most literal English translations available** (formal-equivalence: word-for-word renderings that preserve the Hebrew and Greek grammar rather than smoothing it into modern dynamic-equivalence idiom). And they are in the **public domain in the United States**, which means fair-use quotation at any length requires no publisher license. Modern licensed translations (NASB95, ESV, NIV) restrict volume of quotation under their copyright terms, so they are not used at stub-level coverage here. NASB95 appears only on hand-curated rich passage hubs under Lockman Foundation's fair-use allowance.

The four:

- **[ASV](/codex/asv/)** (American Standard Version, 1901). The basis of the modern critical-text English tradition.
- **[WEB](/codex/web/)** (World English Bible, contemporary). Public-domain revision in the ASV line, in current English.
- **[KJV](/codex/kjv/)** (King James Version, 1611). Reformation-era, Textus Receptus base.
- **[YLT](/codex/ylt/)** (Young's Literal Translation, Robert Young, 1862). Hyper-literal preservation of Hebrew and Greek grammar; useful for word-study work even where English reads stiff.

See [Bibles](/codex/bibles/) for the full per-translation history, translators, textual basis, strengths, and weaknesses.