Mark 8:20

20 "When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?" "Seven," they said.

Mark 8:20 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 8:20

And when the seven among four thousand
That is, when seven loaves were broken among four thousand men,

how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?
this surely you must remember, it being so recent an action, but just done, as it were:

and they said, seven;
for this, as yet, could not have slipped their memories; though they had, been reasoning among themselves because of their straitness of provisions, as if these things had never been done.

Mark 8:20 In-Context

18 Do you have eyes, and not see, and do you have ears, and not hear? And do you not remember?

19 When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?" "Twelve," they told Him.

20 "When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?" "Seven," they said.

21 And He said to them, "Don't you understand yet?"

22 Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Him and begged Him to touch him.