19When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place. …
He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. …
And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. …
When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-21)Still Christ is upon motion; now he visits the parts of Dalmanutha, that no corner of the land of Israel might say that they had not had his presence with them. He came thither by ship (Mark 8:10); but, meeting with occasions of dispute there, and not with opportunities of doing good, he entered into the ship again (Mark 8:13), and came back. In these verses, we are told, I. How he refused to grat…
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