Mark 8:20

20 When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets of fragments took you up? And they say to him: Seven.

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 Having eyes, see you not? And having ears, hear you not? Neither do you remember?
19 When I broke the five loves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say to him: Twelve.
20 When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets of fragments took you up? And they say to him: Seven.
21 And he said to them: How do you not yet understand?
22 And they came to Bethsaida: and they bring to him a blind man. And they besought him that he would touch him.
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