4And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat. …
Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little. …
Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat. …
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? …
Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)We had the story of a miracle very like this before, in this gospel (Mark 6:35), and of this same miracle (Matt. 15:32), and here is little or no addition or alternation as to the circumstances. Yet observe, 1. That our Lord Jesus was greatly followed; The multitude was very great (Mark 8:1); notwithstanding the wicked arts of the scribes and Pharisees to blemish him, and to blast his interest, th…
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