Luke 9:17

And they all took the food and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits which were over, twelve baskets full.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.

In Context

16And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

18And it came about that when he was in prayer, by himself, and the disciples were with him, he put a question to them, saying, Who do the people say I am?

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Cross References

Psalms 37:16The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

Proverbs 13:25The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.

Matthew 15:37And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full.

Mark 6:42And they all took of the food and had enough.

Mark 8:19When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.

Philippians 4:18I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.

Matthew Henry on Luke 9:11-18

The Multitude Miraculously Fed. 10 And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida. 11 And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing. 12 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… Read the whole commentary →

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