Mark 8:7

7 et habebant pisciculos paucos et ipsos benedixit et iussit adponi

Mark 8:7 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 8:7

And they had a few small fishes
Which they also acquainted Christ with, and brought out unto him:

and he blessed, and commanded to set them also before [them].
It looks, by this account, as if the fishes were blessed, and brake, and distributed separately, alter the blessing, breaking, and distribution of the bread; and so the Syriac version renders it, "upon whom also he blessed"; and the Persic thus, "and he also blessed the fishes"; but, according to Matthew they were both blessed, and brake, and distributed together, as it is highly reasonable to suppose they were both ate together; (See Gill on Matthew 15:36).

Mark 8:7 In-Context

5 et interrogavit eos quot panes habetis qui dixerunt septem

6 et praecepit turbae discumbere supra terram et accipiens septem panes gratias agens fregit et dabat discipulis suis ut adponerent et adposuerunt turbae

7 et habebant pisciculos paucos et ipsos benedixit et iussit adponi

8 et manducaverunt et saturati sunt et sustulerunt quod superaverat de fragmentis septem sportas

9 erant autem qui manducaverunt quasi quattuor milia et dimisit eos