Mark 6:43

43 When they picked up the leftover pieces, they filled twelve baskets with bread and fish.

Mark 6:43 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 6:43

And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments
Of the broken pieces of bread, after all had eaten, and were satisfied:

and of the fishes;
what remained of them:, for though there was but one loaf for a thousand persons and more, and two small fishes to be divided among five thousand and more: yet, through the wonderful power of Christ increasing both, as they were distributing and eating, there was enough of both for them all, and such a quantity of each left as filled twelve baskets.

Mark 6:43 In-Context

41 After he took the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed the food. He broke the loaves apart and kept giving them to the disciples to give to the people. He also gave pieces of the two fish to everyone.

42 All of them ate as much as they wanted.

43 When they picked up the leftover pieces, they filled twelve baskets with bread and fish.

44 There were 5,000 men who had eaten the bread.

45 Jesus quickly made his disciples get into a boat and cross to Bethsaida ahead of him while he sent the people away.