The Pulpit Commentary on Matthew 14:20

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

And they did all eat, and were filled ( ἐχορτάσθησαν, Matthew 5:6, note). And they. Undefined, but seen from Matthew 16:9; John 6:12, to have been the disciples. Took up of the fragments that remained; that which remained over of the broken pieces (Revised Version); i.

e. of the pieces broken by our Lord for distribution (John 6:19). Twelve baskets full. The disciples personally lost nothing by the miracle (John 6:15, note), the provision basket that each always carried was now replenished.

Baskets; "cofyns" (Wickliffe); κοφίνους (cf. Luke 9:17, note; and the Talmudic saying, "He that has bread in his basket is not like him that has not bread in his basket," Talm. Bab., 'Yoma,' 74b).

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