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Good News Translation

Matthew 16:10

And what about the seven loaves for the four thousand men? How many baskets did you fill?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Apostles;   Basket;   Chiding;   Jesus, the Christ;   Leaven (Yeast);   Loaves;   Minister, Christian;   Pharisees;   Sadducees;   Thompson Chain Reference - Baskets;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Sadducees;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Leaven;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Bread, Bread of Presence;   Feasts and Festivals of Israel;   Leaven;   Sadducees;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Hutchinsonians;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Basket;   Grass;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Leaven;   Matthew, the Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Text of the New Testament;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Discourse;   Feeding the Multitudes;   Gift;   Miracles (2);   Numbers;   Numbers (2);   Perplexity;   Righteous, Righteousness;   Slowness of Heart;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Basket;   Leaven;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Jesus Christ (Part 2 of 2);   Leaven;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for November 19;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many large baskets you collected?
King James Version (1611)
Neither the seuen loaues of the foure thousand, and how many baskets ye tooke vp?
King James Version
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
English Standard Version
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
New American Standard Bible
"Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets you picked up?
New Century Version
Or the seven loaves of bread that fed the four thousand and the many baskets you filled then also?
Amplified Bible
"Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many large baskets you picked up?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Neither the seuen loaues when there were foure thousande men, and howe many baskets tooke ye vp?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up?
Legacy Standard Bible
Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many large baskets full you picked up?
Berean Standard Bible
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many basketfuls you gathered?
Contemporary English Version
And what about the four thousand people and all those baskets of leftovers from only seven loaves of bread?
Complete Jewish Bible
Or the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many baskets you filled?
Darby Translation
nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took [up]?
Easy-to-Read Version
And remember the seven loaves of bread that fed the 4000 people and the many baskets you filled that time?
George Lamsa Translation
Neither the seven loaves of bread of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Lexham English Bible
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?
Literal Translation
Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many lunch baskets you took up?
American Standard Version
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Bible in Basic English
Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
Hebrew Names Version
Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
International Standard Version
or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many baskets you collected?Matthew 15:34;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Or those seven loaves and the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up ?
Murdock Translation
Nor the seven loaves and the four thousand, and the many baskets ye took up?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Neither the seuen loaues, when there were foure thousande [men], and howe many baskets toke ye vp?
English Revised Version
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
World English Bible
Nor the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Weymouth's New Testament
nor the 4,000 and the seven loaves, and how many hampers you carried away?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
nether of seuene looues in to foure thousynde of men, and hou many lepis ye token?
Update Bible Version
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Webster's Bible Translation
Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
New English Translation
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand and how many baskets you took up?
New King James Version
Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up?
New Living Translation
Or the 4,000 I fed with seven loaves, and the large baskets of leftovers you picked up?
New Life Bible
Or do you not even remember the seven loaves of bread that fed the four thousand men? And how many baskets full were gathered up?
New Revised Standard
Or the seven loaves for the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many hampers ye received?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Nor the seven loaves, among four thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?
Revised Standard Version
Or the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Nether the .vii. loves when there were .iiiii.M. and how many baskettes toke ye vp?
Young's Literal Translation
nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Nether ye seue loaues whan there were foure thousande men, & how many baskettes toke ye vp?
Mace New Testament (1729)
nor the seven loaves among the four thousand, and how many baskets ye carried away?
Simplified Cowboy Version
And what about the four thousand cowboys and all the leftovers from just seven pieces of hard tack?

Contextual Overview

5 When the disciples crossed over to the other side of the lake, they forgot to take any bread. 6 Jesus said to them, "Take care; be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees." 7 They started discussing among themselves, "He says this because we didn't bring any bread." 8 Jesus knew what they were saying, so he asked them, "Why are you discussing among yourselves about not having any bread? What little faith you have! 9 Don't you understand yet? Don't you remember when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand men? How many baskets did you fill? 10 And what about the seven loaves for the four thousand men? How many baskets did you fill? 11 How is it that you don't understand that I was not talking to you about bread? Guard yourselves from the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!" 12 Then the disciples understood that he was not warning them to guard themselves from the yeast used in bread but from the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Matthew 15:34, Matthew 15:38, Mark 8:5-9, Mark 8:17-21

Reciprocal: Matthew 15:37 - seven Mark 8:8 - and were Luke 9:17 - and there Hebrews 12:5 - ye have forgotten

Cross-References

Genesis 16:1
Abram's wife Sarai had not borne him any children. But she had an Egyptian slave woman named Hagar,
Genesis 16:2
and so she said to Abram, "The Lord has kept me from having children. Why don't you sleep with my slave? Perhaps she can have a child for me." Abram agreed with what Sarai said.
Genesis 16:3
So she gave Hagar to him to be his concubine. (This happened after Abram had lived in Canaan for ten years.)
Genesis 16:5
Then Sarai said to Abram, "It's your fault that Hagar despises me. I myself gave her to you, and ever since she found out that she was pregnant, she has despised me. May the Lord judge which of us is right, you or me!"
Genesis 16:6
Abram answered, "Very well, she is your slave and under your control; do whatever you want with her." Then Sarai treated Hagar so cruelly that she ran away.
Genesis 16:7
The angel of the Lord met Hagar at a spring in the desert on the road to Shur
Genesis 16:8
and said, "Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" She answered, "I am running away from my mistress."
Genesis 16:9
He said, "Go back to her and be her slave."
Genesis 16:11
You are going to have a son, and you will name him Ishmael, because the Lord has heard your cry of distress.
Genesis 16:12
But your son will live like a wild donkey; he will be against everyone, and everyone will be against him. He will live apart from all his relatives."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand,.... Have you forgot the other miracle done but a very little while ago, when I fed four thousand men, beside women and children, with seven loaves and a few small fishes;

and how many baskets ye took up? no less than seven large baskets; and am I not able to provide for you? distress not yourselves about this matter; give not way to unbelief, which must argue great stupidity and insensibility.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The account in these verses is also recorded in Mark 8:13-21.

Matthew 16:5

And when his disciples were come to the other side - That is, to the other side of the Sea of Galilee.

Mark says that he entered into a ship again, and departed to the other side. The conversation with the Pharisees and Sadducees had been on the western side of the Sea of Galilee. See the notes at Matthew 15:39. They crossed from that side again to the east.

Had forgotten to take bread - That is, had forgotten to lay in a sufficient supply. They had, it seems, not more than one loaf, Mark 8:14.

Matthew 16:6-11

Take heed ... - That is, be cautious, be on your guard.

The leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees - Leaven is used in making bread.

It passes secretly, silently, but certainly through the mass of dough. See the notes at Matthew 13:33. “None can see its progress.” So it was with the doctrines of the Pharisees. They were insinuating, artful, plausible. They concealed the real tendency of their doctrines; they instilled them secretly into the mind, until they pervaded all the faculties like leaven.

They reasoned ... - The disciples did not understand him as referring to the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees, because the word “leaven” was not often used among the Jews to denote doctrines, no other instance of this use of the word occurring in the Scriptures. Besides, the Jews had many particular rules about the leaven (yeast) which might be used in making bread. Many held that it was not lawful to eat bread made by the Gentiles; and the disciples, perhaps, supposed that he was cautioning them not to procure a supply from the Pharisees and Sadducees.

O ye of little faith! - Jesus, in reply, said that they should not be so anxious about the supply of their temporal wants. They should not have supposed, after the miracles that he had performed in feeding so many, that he would caution them to be anxious about procuring bread for their necessities. It was improper, then, for them to reason about a thing like that, but they should have supposed that he referred to something more important. The miracles had been full proof that he could supply all their wants without such anxiety.

Matthew 16:12

Then understood they ... - After this explanation they immediately saw that he referred to the doctrines of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Erroneous doctrines are like leaven in the following respects:

  1. They are at first slight and unimportant in appearance, just as leaven is small in quantity as compared with the mass that is to be leavened.
  2. They are insinuated into the soul unawares and silently, and are difficult of detection.
  3. They act gradually.
  4. They act most certainly.
  5. They will pervade all the soul, and bring all the faculties under their control.



Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Matthew 16:10. Matthew 16:10- :


 
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