Luke 9:17

And they all ate and were satisfied. And twelve baskets of fragments were taken up, which were left over from them.

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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

16Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish, he gazed up to heaven, and he blessed and broke and distributed them to his disciples, in order to set them before the crowd.

18And it happened that, when he was praying alone, his disciples also were with him, and he questioned them, saying: “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

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Cross References

Psalms 37:16For in you, Lord, I have hoped. You will listen to me, O Lord my God.

Proverbs 13:25The just eats and fills his soul. But the belly of the impious is never satisfied.

Matthew 15:37And they all ate and were satisfied. And, from what was left over of the fragments, they took up seven full baskets.

Mark 6:42And they all ate and were satisfied.

Mark 8:19when I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments you took up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”

Philippians 4:18But I have everything in abundance. I have been filled up, having received from Epaphroditus the things that you sent; this is an odor of sweetness, an acceptable sacrifice, 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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