Matthew 16:9

Simplified Cowboy Version

Why don't you understand? Did you already forget about those five thousand people and all the leftovers from just five biscuits?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand and how many baskets you collected?

King James Version (1611)
Doe ye not yet vnderstand, neither remember the fiue loaues of the fiue thousand, and how many baskets ye tooke vp?

King James Version
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

English Standard Version
Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

New American Standard Bible
"Do you not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you picked up?

New Century Version
Do you still not understand? Remember the five loaves of bread that fed the five thousand? And remember that you filled many baskets with the leftovers?

Amplified Bible
"Do you still not understand or remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you picked up?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Doe ye not yet perceiue, neither remember the fiue loaues, when there were fiue thousand men, and how many baskets tooke ye vp?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up?

Legacy Standard Bible
Do you not yet understand or remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets full you picked up?

Berean Standard Bible
Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?

Contemporary English Version
Don't you understand? Have you forgotten about the five thousand people and all those baskets of leftovers from just five loaves of bread?

Complete Jewish Bible
Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you filled?

Darby Translation
Do ye not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took [up]?

Easy-to-Read Version
Do you still not understand? Remember the five loaves of bread that fed the 5000 people and the many baskets you filled with the bread that was left?

George Lamsa Translation
Do you not yet understand? Do you not remember the five loaves of bread of the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Good News Translation
Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?

Lexham English Bible
Do you not yet understand or do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Literal Translation
Do you not perceive nor recall the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand baskets you took up?

American Standard Version
Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Bible in Basic English
Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

Hebrew Names Version
Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

International Standard Version
Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected,Matthew 14:17; John 6:9;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
Have you not yet understood ? Do you not remember those five loaves for the five thousand, and how many panniers you took up ?

Murdock Translation
Have ye not yet understood? Do ye not remember the five loaves and the five thousand, and the many baskets ye took up?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Do ye not yet perceaue, neither remember those fyue loaues, when there were fyue thousande [men], and howe many baskets toke ye vp?

English Revised Version
Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

World English Bible
Don't you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Do ye not yet understand nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Weymouth's New Testament
Do you not yet understand? nor even remember the 5,000 and the five loaves, and how many basketfuls you carried away,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Yit `vndurstonden not ye, nether han mynde of fyue looues in to fyue thousynde of men, and hou many cofyns ye token?

Update Bible Version
Do you not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

Webster's Bible Translation
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

New English Translation
Do you still not understand? Don't you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

New King James Version
Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

New Living Translation
Don't you understand even yet? Don't you remember the 5,000 I fed with five loaves, and the baskets of leftovers you picked up?

New Life Bible
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?

New Revised Standard
Do you still not perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Not yet, perceive ye, neither remember, - The five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye received?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?

Revised Standard Version
Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Do ye not yet perceave nether remeber those .v. loves when there were .v.M. men and how many baskettes toke ye vp?

Young's Literal Translation
do ye not yet understand, nor remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many hand-baskets ye took up?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Do ye not yet perceaue? Remembre ye not those fyue loaues, whe there were fyue thousande me, and how many basskettes toke ye vp?

Mace New Testament (1729)
where's your understanding? don't you remember the five loaves among five thousand and how many baskets ye took away?

Contextual Overview

⁵The cowboys had forgotten to bring biscuits when they crossed the lake. ⁶Jesus warned 'em against the yeast of the hypocritical preachers and the cattle barons. ⁷The cowboys talked among themselves and said to each other, "He must be sayin' that because we forgot the biscuits." ⁸Jesus knew what they were thinking and said, "Y'all ain't got a lick of faith do you? Why are you talkin' about not havin' any biscuits? ⁹Why don't you understand? Did you already forget about those five thousand people and all the leftovers from just five biscuits? ¹⁰And what about the four thousand cowboys and all the leftovers from just seven pieces of hard tack? ¹¹Don't you know by now I ain't talkin' about biscuits? Watch out for the yeast of the hypocritical preachers and cattle barons!" ¹²Finally it began to sink in and the cowboys knew what he was talkin' about. He wasn't talkin' about yeast for makin' biscuits, but the things that the hypocritical preachers and cattle barons tried to get people to do.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ye not: Matthew 15:16, Matthew 15:17, Mark 7:18, Luke 24:25-27, Revelation 3:19

the five loaves: Matthew 14:17-21, Mark 6:38-44, Luke 9:13-17, John 6:9-13

Reciprocal: Nehemiah 9:17 - mindful Matthew 15:34 - How Matthew 15:37 - seven Mark 4:13 - Know Mark 6:52 - they Mark 8:17 - perceive Luke 9:17 - and there John 16:18 - we 2 Thessalonians 2:5 - Remember Hebrews 2:1 - we should Hebrews 12:5 - ye have forgotten

Cross-References

Ephesians 5:21
Be honorable and reverent to each other out of your love for Christ.

Titus 2:9
Day hands must do what their boss tells them to do whether they like it or not. They shouldn't talk back or mumble under their breath when given something to do.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Do ye not understand,.... Meaning either the sense of the advice he had now given; or rather his almighty power displayed in the two miracles of feeding five thousand at one time, and four thousand at another, with a very small quantity of provision; for to this the word "understand" refers, as well as the following:

neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Have you forgot what was so lately done, namely, the feeding five thousand men, besides women and children, with five loaves and two fishes, when ye took up, after all were filled and satisfied, no less than twelve baskets of fragments? And can you, after this, distrust my power in the care of you? Have I fed so many with so small a quantity of food? and am I not able to feed twelve of you, though you have but one loaf? Why all these anxious thoughts and carnal reasonings?

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 9. - 10. Do ye not yet understand - the five loaves - neither the seven — Matthew 14:14, c. How astonishing is it that these men should have any fear of lacking bread, after having seen the two miracles which our blessed Lord alludes to above! Though men quickly perceive their bodily wants, and are querulous enough till they get them supplied, yet they as quickly forget the mercy which they had received and thus God gets few returns of gratitude for his kindnesses. To make men, therefore, deeply sensible of his favours, he is induced to suffer them often to be in want, and then to supply them in such a way as to prove that their supply has come immediately from the hand of their bountiful Father.