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Matthew 16:10

Or do you not even remember the seven loaves of bread that fed the four thousand men? And how many baskets full were gathered up?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostles;   Basket;   Chiding;   Jesus, the Christ;   Leaven (Yeast);   Loaves;   Minister, Christian;   Pharisees;   Sadducees;   Thompson Chain Reference - Baskets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sadducees;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Leaven;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Leaven;   Sadducees;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Basket;   Grass;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Leaven;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Feeding the Multitudes;   Gift;   Miracles (2);   Numbers;   Numbers (2);   Perplexity;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Slowness of Heart;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Basket;   Leaven;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Leaven;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 19;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many large baskets you collected?
King James Version (1611)
Neither the seuen loaues of the foure thousand, and how many baskets ye tooke vp?
King James Version
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
English Standard Version
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
New American Standard Bible
"Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets you picked up?
New Century Version
Or the seven loaves of bread that fed the four thousand and the many baskets you filled then also?
Amplified Bible
"Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many large baskets you picked up?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither the seuen loaues when there were foure thousande men, and howe many baskets tooke ye vp?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up?
Legacy Standard Bible
Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up?
Berean Standard Bible
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
Contemporary English Version
And what about the four thousand people and all those baskets of leftovers from only seven loaves of bread?
Complete Jewish Bible
Or the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many baskets you filled?
Darby Translation
nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took [up]?
Easy-to-Read Version
And remember the seven loaves of bread that fed the 4000 people and the many baskets you filled that time?
George Lamsa Translation
Neither the seven loaves of bread of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Good News Translation
And what about the seven loaves for the four thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?
Lexham English Bible
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?
Literal Translation
Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many lunch baskets you took up?
American Standard Version
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Bible in Basic English
Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
Hebrew Names Version
Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
International Standard Version
or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many baskets you collected?Matthew 15:34;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Or those seven loaves and the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up ?
Murdock Translation
Nor the seven loaves and the four thousand, and the many baskets ye took up?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neither the seuen loaues, when there were foure thousande [men], and howe many baskets toke ye vp?
English Revised Version
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
World English Bible
Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Weymouth's New Testament
nor the 4,000 and the seven loaves, and how many hampers you carried away?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
nether of seuene looues in to foure thousynde of men, and hou many lepis ye token?
Update Bible Version
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Webster's Bible Translation
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
New English Translation
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?
New King James Version
Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up?
New Living Translation
Or the 4,000 I fed with seven loaves, and the large baskets of leftovers you picked up?
New Revised Standard
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many hampers ye received?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor the seven loaves, among four thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?
Revised Standard Version
Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Nether the .vii. loves when there were .iiiii.M. and how many baskettes toke ye vp?
Young's Literal Translation
nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Nether ye seue loaues whan there were foure thousande men, & how many baskettes toke ye vp?
Mace New Testament (1729)
nor the seven loaves among the four thousand, and how many baskets ye carried away?
Simplified Cowboy Version
And what about the four thousand cowboys and all the leftovers from just seven pieces of hard tack?

Contextual Overview

5 The followers came to the other side of the lake. They remembered they had forgotten to bring bread. 6 Jesus said to them, "See! Have nothing to do with the yeast of the proud religious law-keepers and the religious group of people who believe no one will be raised from the dead." 7 They started to think about it among themselves and said, "He said this because we forgot to bring bread." 8 Jesus knew this and said, "You have very little faith! Why are you talking among yourselves about not bringing bread? 9 Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of bread that fed five thousand men? And how many baskets full were gathered up? 10 Or do you not even remember the seven loaves of bread that fed the four thousand men? And how many baskets full were gathered up? 11 Why is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread? I was talking to you about keeping away from the yeast of the proud religious law-keepers and the religious group of people who believe no one will be raised from the dead." 12 Then they understood that it was not the yeast of bread that He was talking about. But He was talking about the teaching of the proud religious law-keepers and of the other religious group of people.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 15:34, Matthew 15:38, Mark 8:5-9, Mark 8:17-21

Reciprocal: Matthew 15:37 - seven Mark 8:8 - and were Luke 9:17 - and there Hebrews 12:5 - ye have forgotten

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Now Abram's wife Sarai had not given birth to any children. She had a woman servant from Egypt whose name was Hagar.
Genesis 16:2
So Sarai said to Abram, "Now see, the Lord has kept me from having children. Go in to the woman who serves me. It may be that I will get children through her." Abram listened to what Sarai said.
Genesis 16:3
So Abram's wife Sarai took Hagar the Egyptian, who served her, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife. That was after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "May the wrong done to me be upon you. I gave the woman who served me into your arms. But when she saw that she was going to have a child, she began to hate me. May the Lord judge who is guilty or not between you and me."
Genesis 16:6
But Abram said to Sarai, "See, the woman who serves you is in your power. Do what you want with her." So Sarai made it hard for Hagar. And Hagar ran away from her.
Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord found Hagar by a well of water in the desert on the way to Shur.
Genesis 16:8
He said, "Hagar, you who serve Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am running away from Sarai, the one I serve."
Genesis 16:9
Then the angel of the Lord said to her, "Return to your boss. Put yourself under her power."
Genesis 16:11
The angel of the Lord also said to her, "See, you are going to have a child. And you will give birth to a son. You will give him the name Ishmael, because the Lord has heard how you have suffered.
Genesis 16:12
He will be a wild donkey of a man. His hand will be against all people. And the hand of all people will be against him. He will live to the east of all his brothers."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand,.... Have you forgot the other miracle done but a very little while ago, when I fed four thousand men, beside women and children, with seven loaves and a few small fishes;

and how many baskets ye took up? no less than seven large baskets; and am I not able to provide for you? distress not yourselves about this matter; give not way to unbelief, which must argue great stupidity and insensibility.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The account in these verses is also recorded in Mark 8:13-21.

Matthew 16:5

And when his disciples were come to the other side - That is, to the other side of the Sea of Galilee.

Mark says that he entered into a ship again, and departed to the other side. The conversation with the Pharisees and Sadducees had been on the western side of the Sea of Galilee. See the notes at Matthew 15:39. They crossed from that side again to the east.

Had forgotten to take bread - That is, had forgotten to lay in a sufficient supply. They had, it seems, not more than one loaf, Mark 8:14.

Matthew 16:6-11

Take heed ... - That is, be cautious, be on your guard.

The leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees - Leaven is used in making bread.

It passes secretly, silently, but certainly through the mass of dough. See the notes at Matthew 13:33. “None can see its progress.” So it was with the doctrines of the Pharisees. They were insinuating, artful, plausible. They concealed the real tendency of their doctrines; they instilled them secretly into the mind, until they pervaded all the faculties like leaven.

They reasoned ... - The disciples did not understand him as referring to the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees, because the word “leaven” was not often used among the Jews to denote doctrines, no other instance of this use of the word occurring in the Scriptures. Besides, the Jews had many particular rules about the leaven (yeast) which might be used in making bread. Many held that it was not lawful to eat bread made by the Gentiles; and the disciples, perhaps, supposed that he was cautioning them not to procure a supply from the Pharisees and Sadducees.

O ye of little faith! - Jesus, in reply, said that they should not be so anxious about the supply of their temporal wants. They should not have supposed, after the miracles that he had performed in feeding so many, that he would caution them to be anxious about procuring bread for their necessities. It was improper, then, for them to reason about a thing like that, but they should have supposed that he referred to something more important. The miracles had been full proof that he could supply all their wants without such anxiety.

Matthew 16:12

Then understood they ... - After this explanation they immediately saw that he referred to the doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Erroneous doctrines are like leaven in the following respects:

  1. They are at first slight and unimportant in appearance, just as leaven is small in quantity as compared with the mass that is to be leavened.
  2. They are insinuated into the soul unawares and silently, and are difficult of detection.
  3. They act gradually.
  4. They act most certainly.
  5. They will pervade all the soul, and bring all the faculties under their control.



Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 16:10. Matthew 16:10- :


 
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