37And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve. …
So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets. …
And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? …
And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 29-39)Here is, I. A general account of Christ’s cures, his curing by wholesale. The tokens of Christ’s power and goodness are neither scarce nor scanty; for there is in him an overflowing fulness. Now observe, 1. The place where these cures were wrought; it was near the sea of Galilee , a part of the country Christ was much conversant with. We read not of any thing he did in the coasts of Tyre and Sidon…
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