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马可福音 6:41

耶穌拿起這五個餅、兩條魚,望著天,祝謝了;然後把餅擘開,遞給門徒擺在群眾面前,又把兩條魚也分給群眾。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Jesus Continued;   Prayer;   Thompson Chain Reference - Miracles;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Bethsaida;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Blessing;   Food;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hospitality;   Lord's Supper, the;   Touch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Mark, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gestures;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Animals;   Benediction;   Blessing (2);   Communion (2);   Creator (Christ as);   Feeding the Multitudes;   Fish, Fisher, Fishing;   Gennesaret, Land of;   Gestures;   Lord's Supper (Ii);   Numbers (2);   Prayer (2);   Wilderness (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bethsaida ;   Miracles;   New Testament;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Bethsa'ida;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Gesture;   Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Mark, the Gospel According to;   Prayers of Jesus;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Bethsaida;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Jesus of Nazareth;   New Testament;  

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 稣 拿 着 这 五 个 饼 , 两 条 鱼 , 望 着 天 祝 福 , 擘 开 饼 , 递 给 门 徒 , 摆 在 众 人 面 前 , 也 把 那 两 条 鱼 分 给 众 人 。

Contextual Overview

30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and told him about all the things they had done and taught. 31 Crowds of people were coming and going so that Jesus and his followers did not even have time to eat. He said to them, "Come away by yourselves, and we will go to a lonely place to get some rest." 32 So they went in a boat by themselves to a lonely place. 33 But many people saw them leave and recognized them. So from all the towns they ran to the place where Jesus was going, and they got there before him. 34 When he arrived, he saw a great crowd waiting. He felt sorry for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began to teach them many things. 35 When it was late in the day, his followers came to him and said, "No one lives in this place, and it is already very late. 36 Send the people away so they can go to the countryside and towns around here to buy themselves something to eat." 37 But Jesus answered, "You give them something to eat." They said to him, "We would all have to work a month to earn enough money to buy that much bread!" 38 Jesus asked them, "How many loaves of bread do you have? Go and see." When they found out, they said, "Five loaves and two fish." 39 Then Jesus told his followers to have the people sit in groups on the green grass.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

looked: Mark 7:34, Matthew 14:19, Luke 9:16, John 11:41, John 17:1

blessed: Mark 8:6, Mark 8:7, Mark 14:22, Deuteronomy 8:10, 1 Samuel 9:13, Matthew 15:36, Matthew 26:26, Luke 24:30, John 6:11, John 6:23, Acts 27:35, Romans 14:6, 1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:17, 1 Timothy 4:4, 1 Timothy 4:5

Reciprocal: Daniel 1:15 - their

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when he had taken the five loaves and two fishes,.... Out of the hands of those that brought them into his own:

he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves:

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and gave them to his disciples to set before them; the multitude, in order to eat of them:

and the two fishes divided he among them all; that every one might have a part. The Syriac and Persic versions read, they divided; that is, the apostles.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this narrative explained in the notes at Matthew 14:13-21.

Mark 6:32

By ship - By a boat or a small vessel.

Privately - Without making their plan known. They intended to go privately. It appears, however, that their intention became known, and multitudes followed them.

Mark 6:33

Afoot thither - On foot to the place where they saw them going.

Out of all cities - All cities or large towns in the neighborhood.

Mark 6:34

Much people ...as sheep ... - They had no one to teach them and guide them. The priests and scribes were proud and corrupt; they despised the common people and neglected them.

Mark 6:35

The time is far passed - The day is almost gone. It is drawing near night.

Mark 6:37

Two hundred pennyworth of bread - About twenty-eight dollars, or 6 British pounds. See the notes at Matthew 14:16. As the disciples had a common purse in which they carried their little property, consisting of the donations of their friends and money to be given to the poor (compare John 12:6; Matthew 26:8-9; Luke 8:3), it is not improbable that they had at this time about this sum in their possession. Philip - for it was he who asked the question John 6:7 - asked, with a mixture of wonder and agitation, whether they should take all their little property and spend it on a single meal? And even if we should, said he, it would not be sufficient to satisfy such a multitude. It was implied in this that, in his view, they could not provide for them if they wished to, and that it would be better to send them away than to attempt it.

Mark 6:40

In ranks - Literally, in the form of square beds in a garden. By regularly formed companies.

By hundreds and by fifties - Some companies had a hundred in them, and some groupings had fifty in them. We do not need to suppose that these were “exactly” formed or arranged, but that this was approximately the number. The expression indicates a “multitude.” There were so many that they sat down, by “hundreds” and by “fifties,” in separate companies, upon the green grass.

Mark 6:43

twelve baskets - Baskets belonging to the disciples, in which they carried their provisions, or, perhaps, belonging to some of the multitude.

Fragments - Broken pieces of the bread that remained.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 41. And blessed — I think the word God should be inserted here, as in Matthew 14:19. See the note there. The food we receive from God is already blessed, and does not stand in need of being blessed by man; but God, who gives it, deserves our warmest thanksgivings, as frequently as we are called to partake of his bounty.


 
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