Mark 8:20

20 And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said 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, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory?

19 When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.

20 And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven.

21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?

22 And they came to Beth-saida. And they took a blind man to him, requesting him to put his hands on him.