Matthew - 16:9



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

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Explanation and meaning of Matthew 16:9.

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Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?
Do you not yet understand? nor even remember the 5,000 and the five loaves, and how many basketfuls you carried away,
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?
Do you still not understand? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Do you not yet understand, nor remember, the five loaves among the five thousand men, and how many containers you took up?
Don't you yet see, nor remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took away?

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Do ye not yet understand - the five loaves - neither the seven - See the notes on Matthew 14:14, etc. 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 favors, 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.

Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the (e) five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
(e) That five thousand men were filled with so many loaves?

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?

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