Exegesis:

hē de hēmera ērxato klinein ‘then the day began to decline.’ A co-ordinate clause is employed here instead of the more common sub-ordinate, temporal clause, because it is more vivid.

klinō here intransitive, ‘to decline,’ ‘to be far spent.’

apoluson ton ochlon ‘dismiss the crowd,’ cf. on 2.29. ton ochlon takes up hoi ochloi in v. 11. To this group refers also the subject of katalusōsin (plural).

hina poreuthentes eis tas kuklō kōmas kai agrous katalusōsin ‘that they, after going to the villages and farms around, find lodging.’ For agrous cf. on 8.34. kuklō.

kataluō (also 19.7) ‘to halt,’ ‘to rest,’ ‘to find lodging.’

kai heurōsin episitismon ‘and find provisions.’

episitismos ‘provisions,’ ‘food,’ a military term used also in the case of travellers.

hoti hōde en erēmō topō esmen ‘for here we are in a lonely place.’

Translation:

The day began to wear away may be variously expressed, cf. e.g. ‘the time-of-day (was) close-to evening’ (Bahasa Indonesia); and cf. on “the day is far spent” in 24.29.

Send the crowd away, to go into, or, ‘give the crowd leave that they may go into,’ ‘urge the crowd to go into’; renderings such as ‘dismiss the crowd, and let them go into,’ or simply, “send the crowd away to” (An American Translation), ‘order the crowd to go to’ (Balinese) are acceptable too, unless they would suggest a rejection or getting rid of.

Villages and country refers to local units of medium and smallest size; for the latter cf. on 8.34.

Round about (going with the two preceding nouns), or, ‘that are nearby’ (Tae,’ Sundanese), ‘in the neighbourhood’ (Nieuwe Vertaling), ‘to-the-left-and-right-from here’ (Javanese).

To lodge and get provisions, or, ‘to get a place to lodge and to get something-to-eat’ (Sundanese), ‘to seek/ask lodging (or, place-to-pass-the-night, Tae’) and food,’ “to find food and shelter” (An American Translation, changing the order in accordance with the receptor language idiom). A syntactic shift sometimes useful is found in Batak Toba, .’.. to go to lodge in the villages and country to get something-to-eat.’

Lonely place, see on 4.42.

Quoted with permission from Reiling, J. and Swellengrebel, J.L. A Handbook on the Gospel of Luke. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1971. For this and other handbooks for translators see here . Make sure to also consult the Handbook on the Gospel of Mark for parallel or similar verses.