Matthew 16:9
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
KJV
οὔπω νοεῖτε, οὐδὲ μνημονεύετε τοὺς πέντε ἄρτους τῶν πεντακισχιλίων καὶ πόσους κοφίνους ἐλάβετε;
Greek NT
Nondum intelligitis, neque recordamini quinque panum in quinque millia hominum, et quot cophinos sumpsistis ?
Vulgate
Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
ASV
Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κόφινος
kophinos
noun · 6×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
μνημονεύω
mnemoneuo
verb · 21×
νοιέω
noieo
verb · 14×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
οὔπω
oupo
adverb · 25×
πέντε
pente
adjective · 38×
πεντακισχίλιοι
pentakischilioi
adjective · 6×
πόσος
posos
correlative_pronoun · 27×
ἄρτος
artos
noun · 97×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on Matthew · 3 passages
2. Having therefore called him, He also honored him with a very great honor by partaking straightway of his table; for in this way He would both give him good hope for the future, and lead him on to a greater confidence. For not in a long time, but at once, He healed his vice. And not with him only does He sit down to meat, but with many others also; although this very thing wa…
2. He took therefore the five loaves, and the two fishes, and commanded the multitude, it is said, to sit down upon the grass, and looking up to Heaven, He blessed, and broke, and gave to His disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat and were filled, and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about…
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
- 2Thess 2:5 — Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?
- Heb 2:1 — Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
- John 6:9 — There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
- John 6:9 — There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
- Luke 9:13 — But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
- Luke 9:17 — And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
- Luke 24:25 — Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
- Mark 6:38 — He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
- Mark 6:52 — For they considered not the miracle of the loaves: for their heart was hardened.
- Mark 7:18 — And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;
- Matt 14:17 — And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
- Matt 14:17 — And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
- Matt 15:16 — And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
- Matt 15:16 — And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
- Matt 15:34 — And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
- Neh 9:17 — And refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage: but thou art a God
- Rev 3:19 — As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.