Luke 9:17

Everyone had sufficient to eat, and what was left of the broken pieces was picked up – twelve baskets.

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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

16Taking the five loaves and the two fish, Jesus looked up to heaven and said the blessing over them. Then he broke them in pieces, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people.

18Afterward, when Jesus was alone, praying, his disciples joined him, and he asked them this question – “Who do the people say that I am?”

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Cross References

Psalms 37:16Better is the righteous person’s little than the wealth of many wicked.

Matthew 15:37Everyone had sufficient to eat, and they picked up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left.

Mark 6:42Everyone had sufficient to eat;

Mark 8:19when I broke up the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets of broken pieces you picked up?” “Twelve,” they said.

Philippians 4:18My wants are fully satisfied, now that I have received from Epaphroditus the gifts which you sent me – the sweet fragrance of a sacrifice acceptable and 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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