King James Version
What Does Matthew 16:9 Mean?
“Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?”
Context
7
And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.
8
Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?
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Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
10
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
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How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(9, 10) **How many baskets.**—The distinction between the two kinds of baskets—the *cophini* and the *spurides*—is, as before noticed (Note on Matthew 15:37), strictly observed here.
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
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