Matthew 15:37
And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
KJV
καὶ ἔφαγον πάντες καὶ ἐχορτάσθησαν, καὶ τὸ περισσεῦον τῶν κλασμάτων ἦραν, ἑπτὰ σπυρίδας πλήρεις.
Greek NT
Et comederunt omnes, et saturati sunt. Et quod superfuit de fragmentis, tulerunt septem sportas plenas.
Vulgate
And they all ate, and were filled: and they took up that which remained over of the broken pieces, seven baskets full.
ASV
And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven baskets full, of what remained of the fragments.
Douay-Rheims
Open in reader with connections →
In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- τὸ περισσεῦον τῶν κλασμάτων ἦραν — SBLGNT
- τὸ … κλασμάτων ἦραν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἦραν τὸ … κλασμάτων — Robinson-Pierpont
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1335The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples to feed the multitude, prefigure the superabundance of this unique bread of his Eucharist.156 The sign of water turned into wine at Cana already announces the Hour of Jesus' glorification. It makes manifest the fulfillment of the wedding fea…
2. Since however they still spoke of the multitude merely, and the place, and the wilderness (for whence, it is said, should we have in a wilderness so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?); and not even so understood what He said, He proceeds to contribute His own part, and says unto them, How many loaves do you have? And they say, Seven, and a few little fishes. Matt…
1. Beloved, let us not contend with violent men, but learn when the doing so brings no hurt to our virtue to give place to their evil counsels; for so all their hardihood is checked. As darts when they fall upon a firm, hard, and resisting substance, rebound with great violence on those who throw them, but when the violence of the cast has nothing to oppose it, it soon becomes …
Cross-references
- 2Chr 31:10 — And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: fo
- 2Kgs 4:43 — And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
- John 6:12 — When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
- Luke 9:17 — And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
- Mark 6:42 — And they did all eat, and were filled.
- Mark 8:19 — When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
- Ps 78:25 — Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.