Matthew 16:9

9 Do you not yet understand? nor even remember the 5,000 and the five loaves, and how many basketfuls you carried away,

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 reasoned among themselves, saying, "It is because we have not brought any bread."

8 Jesus perceived this and said, "Why are you reasoning among yourselves, you men of little faith, because you have no bread?

9 Do you not yet understand? nor even remember the 5,000 and the five loaves, and how many basketfuls you carried away,

10 nor the 4,000 and the seven loaves, and how many hampers you carried away?

11 How is it you do not understand that it was not about bread that I spoke to you? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees."