Luke 9:17

They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

World Messianic Bible

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

16He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to the sky, he blessed them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.

18As he was praying alone, the disciples were near him, and he asked them, “Who do the multitudes say that I am?”

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Cross References

Psalms 37:16Better is a little that the righteous has, than the abundance of many wicked.

Proverbs 13:25The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

Matthew 15:37They all ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

Mark 6:42They all ate and were filled.

Mark 8:19When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”

Philippians 4:18But I have all things and abound. I am filled, having received from Epaphroditus the things that came from you, a sweet-smelling fragrance, an acceptable and well-pleasing sacrifice 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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