Matthew 16:9

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

Matthew 16:9 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 16:9

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?

Matthew 16:9 In-Context

7 they thought he said it because they hadn't brought bread.
8 But Yeshua, aware of this, said, "Such little trust you have! Why are you talking with each other about not having bread?
9 Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you filled?
10 Or the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many baskets you filled?
11 How can you possibly think I was talking to you about bread? Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P'rushim and Tz'dukim!"
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