9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
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And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. …
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? …
But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people. …
And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? …
He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 5-12)We have here Christ’s discourse with his disciples concerning bread, in which, as in many other discourses, he speaks to them of spiritual things under a similitude, and they misunderstand him of carnal things. The occasion of it was, their forgetting to victual their ship, and to take along with them provisions for their family on the other side of the water; usually they carried bread along with…
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