Luke 9:17

So they ate and were fully satisfied, all of them; and what they had remaining over was gathered up, twelve baskets of fragments.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven He blessed them and broke them into portions which He gave to the disciples to distribute to the people.

18One day when He was praying by Himself the disciples were present; and He asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"

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Cross References

Matthew 15:37And they all ate and were satisfied. The broken portions that remained over they took up--seven full hampers.

Mark 6:42All ate and were fully satisfied.

Mark 8:19When I broke up the five loaves for the 5,000 men, how many baskets did you carry away full of broken portions?" "Twelve," they said.

Philippians 4:18I have enough of everything--and more than enough. My wants are fully satisfied now that I have received from the hands of Epaphroditus the generous gifts which you sent me--they are a fragrant odor, an acceptable sacrifice, truly 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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