Send the multitude away?

Send the multitude away?
To whom should sinners go?
Jesus, if with Him they stay,
Will living bread bestow,
Hungry souls th’ immortal meat
May without price or money buy,
Bread, which all who daily eat
Shall never faint, or die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Send them away that they may go, and buy themselves bread.’—[Mark 6,] v. 36.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 500.
Publishing: Public Domain