Mark 6:43

After that, Jesus’s followers picked up the bits of food that nobody ate. They filled up 12 big baskets with that left-over food.

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In The King James Version

And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.

In Context

42All of the people got some bread and some fish, and they ate until they were full.

44A really big mob of people ate that food. There were 5,000 men in that mob, as well as women and kids.

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Matthew Henry on Mark 6:31-45

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes. 30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. 31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. 33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent… Read the whole commentary →

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