They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish.
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They took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and also of the fish.
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And they toke vp twelve baskettes full of the gobbettes and of the fysshes.
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And they tooke vp twelue baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
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Passages linked to Mark 6:43 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Mark 8:19-20 When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.” “When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Seven.”
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 43 And they took up twelve baskets full of…
43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
Ver. 43. {See Trapp on "Mat 14:20"} {See Trapp on "Joh 6:12"} {See Trapp on "Joh 6:13"} {See Trapp on "Joh 6:14"}
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And they that did eat of the loaves,.... And…
And they that did eat of the loaves,.... And also of the fishes; for they all ate of both;
were about five thousand men; the word "about", is omitted in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic and Ethiopic versions, reading five thousand men certain. The Evangelist Matthew adds, "beside children and women", Mat 14:21.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Full of the fragments - of the bread.
Full of the fragments - of the bread.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 43. Twelve baskets] These were either the baskets…
Verse 43. Twelve baskets] These were either the baskets used by the disciples, see Mt 14:20, or baskets belonging to some of the multitude, who might have brought some with them to carry provisions, or other things necessary for the sick, whom they brought to Christ to be healed.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 43. they took up] in obedience to our Lord’s…
43. they took up] in obedience to our Lord’s command (Joh_6:12), Who would teach them that wastefulness even of miraculous power was wholly alien to the Divine economy.
baskets] “tuelue coffyns full,” Wyclif. All the Evangelists alike here use cophinoi for the small common wicker-baskets, in which these fragments were collected, at the feeding of the Five Thousand, and the word spurides, or large rope-baskets, when they describe the feeding of the Four Thousand. These wicker baskets were the common possession of the Jews, in which to carry their food in order to avoid pollution with heathens; “Judaeis, quorum cophinus foenumque supellex,” Juv. Sat. III. 14. The same distinction is made by our Lord when He alludes to both miracles (Mar_8:19-20; Mat_16:9-10).
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Spiritual economy.
Spiritual economy.
From other accounts we learn that this measure was ordered by Christ. The power and the restraint of Christ are about equally demonstrative of his divinity. A strict and immediate economy is demanded in his kingdom. We are to appreciate the grace received; its very fragments are to be precious. The life and work of the Christian have to exhibit a wise and careful stewardship. This direction
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I IS A SOLUTION TO ONE OF THE GREATEST DIFFICULTIES IN CONNECTION WITH PRAYER.
1. Answers are apparently withheld because they have already been granted and we do not realize it.
2. Further blessing is denied because that actually received has been wasted or despised.
II DISCOVERS A COMMON SOURCE OF WEAKNESS AND WANT IN SPIRITUAL LIFE.
1. We have not enough because there has been carelessness and waste.
2. We have not enough (or abundance) because we have been selfish. There has been no desire to keep what has been received for others.
III TEACHES US GREAT HUMILITY AND GRATITUDE IN THE USE OF SPIRITUAL SUPPLIES. M.
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