Twelve baskets] Kophinoi were large baskets such as were frequently carried by Jews. Each of the apostles had one. The gathering up of the fragments for future use was a lesson in economy, a protest against waste.
Verse Matthew 14:20. _THEY DID ALL EAT, AND WERE FILLED_] Little or much is the same in the hands of Jesus Christ. Here was an incontestable miracle - _five thousand_ men, besides women and children,...
A full narrative of the feeding the five thousand is given in each of the other evangelists: in Mark 6:32; in Luke 9:10; in John 6:1....
2. JOHN'S MARTYRDOM. The Fourfold Attitude of the Rejected King. CHAPTER 14 1. John's Martyrdom. (Matthew 14:1 .) 2. The Disciples of John with the Lord Jesus. (Matthew 14:12 .) 3. Feeding the Five...
THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE (Mark 6:35 *, Luke 9:10). The account is somewhat shorter than in Mk. Having already (Matthew 9:36) spoken of Jesus-' compassion for people who were as sheep not having a...
THE TRAGIC DRAMA OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Matthew 14:1-12)...
When Jesus heard the news (of the death of John), he withdrew from there in a boat, into a deserted place alone. When the crowds heard of it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he had dise...
FILLED. satisfied. BASKETS. Greek. _kophinos._. small wicker hand-basket....
Jesus retires to a Desert Place, where He feeds Five Thousand Mark 6:31-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:5-14 This is the only miracle narrated by all the Evangelists. In St John it prepares the way for the...
_they took up of the fragments_ The Greek word for fragments is connected with the verb "to break" in the preceding verse. The true meaning of the word is therefore "the portions broken off for distri...
ΤῸ ΠΕΡΙΣΣΕΥ͂ΟΝ ΤΩ͂Ν ΚΛΑΣΜΆΤΩΝ. ΚΛΑΣΜΆΤΩΝ connected with κλάσας, therefore not ‘fragments’ in the sense of crumbs of bread, but the ‘portions’ broken off for distribution. ΔΏΔΕΚΑ ΚΟΦΊΝΟΥΣ. The same wor...
JESUS RETIRES TO A DESERT PLACE, WHERE HE FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND Mark 6:31-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:5-14. This is the only miracle narrated by all the Evangelists. In St John it prepares the way for the...
Ver 15. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, "This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves v...
_PEOPLE WERE HUNGRY AND JESUS CARED MATTHEW 14:13-21:_ "When Jesus heard of it" He went to a "deserted place by Himself." (Matthew 14:13) It is not clear whether Matthew intended us to understand that...
ΈΦΑΓΟΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΈΣΘΊΩ (G2068) есть, ΈΧΟΡΤΆΣΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΧΟΡΤΆΖΩ (G904) насыщать; _pass._ насыщаться, наедаться; терминативный _aor._, "стать полностью насытившимся" (RWP; Hag...
Section 34 JESUS FEEDS THE 5000 AND WALKS UPON THE WAVES (Parallels: Mark 6:30-52; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-21) TEXT: 14:13-33 13 Now when Jesus heard _it,_ he withdrew from thence in a boat, to a des...
And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus. For the exposition of this section-one of the very few where all the four Evangelists run parallel-see the note...
3 See Lev_18:1620:21. 6-12 Compare Mar_6:21-29. 13-15 Compare Mar_6:30-36; Luk_9:10-12 Joh_6:1-7. 13 Herod's insistence that the Lord was John the baptist was not very reassuring, for He was almost...
37 The history of the kingdom proclamation in Acts and what is predicted the circumcision epistles and the Unveiling fully bears out our Lord's forecast. There were the seven sons of Sceva (Act_19:15)...
14:20 hand-baskets (b-19) See Note. ch. 16.9....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JOHN THE *BAPTIST DIES 14:1-12 V1 At that time, the ruler called Herod heard reports about Jesus. V2 So he spoke to his servants....
TWELVE BASKETS FULL. — The basket here is the _cophinus,_ a small basket carried in the hand, and often used by travellers to hold their food. So Juvenal (_Sat. iii._ 14) describes the Jews of Italy a...
CHAPTER 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1 - Matthew 15:1 - Matthew 16:1. THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet been interwoven in a...
δώδεκα κοφ. πλ. is in appos. with τὸ περισσεῦον τ. κ. They took the surplus of the broken pieces to the extent of twelve baskets. κοφίνους, answering to the Rabbinical קופא, a basket of considerable s...
_The feeding_....
_Jesus retires; feeding of thousands_ (Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17)....
ABUNDANCE FOR THE HUNGRY Matthew 14:13-21 Jesus sighed for a little quiet and sought it amid the lonely hills across the lake. The crowds saw where His boat was making for, and hurried round the sho...
The presence and activity of the true King filled the false ruler with alarm. Herod sacrificed John to his lust. Once Herod had heard John, and the remembrance of former conviction was still with him,...
_And they did all eat, and were filled. This miraculous multiplication of the loaves was effected on a Thursday evening --- an excellent figure of the blesses Eucharist. On the next morning, Friday, h...
CHAPTER 32 FEEDING THE MULTITUDES Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17; & John 6:1-14. Mark: “And they de
"When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. (14) And Jesus went forth, and saw a...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
20._And carried away what was left. _The _fragments _that remained after satisfying so vast a multitude of men were more than twelve times larger in quantity than what was at first put into their hand...
Our Gospel resumes the historical course of these revelations, but in such a manner as to exhibit the spirit by which the people were animated. Herod (loving his earthly power and his own glory more t...
AND THEY DID ALL EAT,.... Christ and his twelve disciples, and the five thousand men, with the women and children, of the five loaves and two fishes; everyone had their portion, AND WERE FILLED; they...
And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. Ver. 20. _And were filled_] So David's cup overflowed, Psalms 23:5; he had not only a suffi...
He _commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass_ Mark says, _by companies_, as we render the phrase συμποσια, συμποσια, which is literally, _companies, companies_, that is, _in separate companies...
DID ALL EAT-WERE FILLED; besides the immediate act of mercy in feeding a vast multitude in the wilderness, this miracle was intended to have a deep symbolic meaning. By it Christ exhibited himself as...
The miracle:...
AND THEY DID ALL EAT AND WERE FILLED; AND THEY TOOK UP OF THE FRAGMENTS THAT REMAINED TWELVE BASKETFULS....
Now authority in high places is seen to reject Him too, by the deliberate rejection of His forerunner and servant John the Baptist. When King Herod hears of His fame, his conscience is troubled, feari...
13-21 When Christ and his word withdraw, it is best for us to follow, seeking the means of grace for our souls before any worldly advantages. The presence of Christ and his gospel, makes a desert not...
SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 14:21"....
Didache :[89]...
Matthew 14:20 So G2532 all G3956 ate G5315 (G5627) and G2532 filled G5526 (G5681) and G2532 up...
‘And they all ate, and were filled, and they took up what remained over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.' We may compare here Psalms 78:25, ‘He sent them food to the full'; and 2 Kings 4:44,...
JESUS PROVIDES A MESSIANIC FELLOWSHIP MEAL IN THE WILDERNESS FOR HIS SYMBOLIC NEW COMMUNITY (14:13-21). Jesus, having been rejected by His home country and by the powers that be, has compassion on tho...
Matthew 14:20. AND WERE FILLED. Philip had said that 200 pennyworth of bread would only give each a little, but now all had received enough. OF THE BROKEN PIECES. The pieces they distributed, pieces...
The feeding of the Five Thousand is the only miracle mentioned by all four Evangelists, and the first occurrence fully narrated by them all. It also furnishes a definite chronological point for a harm...
WERE FILLED (εχορτασθησαν). Effective aorist passive indicative of χορταζω. See Matthew 5:6. From the substantive χορτος grass. Cattle were filled with grass and people usually with other food. The...
Matthew 14:15 Jesus and His Bounty. I. The problem of the disciples. The desert place, the night, and the multitude without food, presented a problem that might well constitute reason for anxiety to...
Matthew 14:13. _When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by a ship into a desert place apart:_ It is well for us to get alone with God when he takes home the best and most faithful of his servants....
Matthew 14:14. _And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick._ Different persons take different views of multitudes, according...
CONTENTS: Herod's troubled conscience and the murder of John the Baptist. The 5000 fed. Jesus walks on the water. CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist, Herod, Herodias, and her daughter, disciples. CO...
Matthew 14:2. _This is John the baptist: he is risen from the dead._ Mark indicates that Herod was a sadducee by those words of Christ, Beware of the leaven of the sadducees beware of the leaven of He...
EVERYONE ATE AND HAD ENOUGH. This was not a skimpy miracle! TWELVE BASKETS FULL. This showed how much food was provided. It also teaches us to conserve our resources. [Jews took along baskets when the...
_They need not depart; give ye them to eat._ CHRIST FEEDING THE MULTITUDE The miracles of Jesus were: (1) public; (2) beneficent. I. The nature and circumstances of the miracle. 1. When was it w...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 14:15 These verses record Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000, the only miracle from Jesus’ earthly ministry recorded in all four Gospels (compare Mark 6:32;...
Jesus feeds five thousand Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-15;...
CHAPTER 14 The first eleven verses of this chapter relate to the decollation of John the Baptist, of which I have spoken at length on the sixth chapter of S. Mark. _His Body_ : Syriac, _sclado_, i.e....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 14:13. HE DEPARTED THENCE.—Matthew traces the withdrawal from Capernaum to the eastern side of the lake to the news of John Baptist’s martyrdom. Luke tells us that Herod desir...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 14:1 CHRIST'S POWER TO SUPPLY AND PROTECT AND HEAL, PREFACED BY A STATEMENT OF HEROD'S RELATION T
And at that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus. And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he's risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in...
1 Kings 17:12; 2 Kings 4:1; 2 Kings 4:43; 2 Kings 4:44; Exodus 16:12
Were filled [ε χ ο ρ τ α σ θ η σ α ν]. See on Matthew 5:6. Baskets [κ ο φ ι ν ο υ ς]. Wyc., coffins, a transcription of the Greek word. Juvenal, the Roman satirist, describes the grove of Numa, near t...
They did all eat, not. crumb or. bit, but to satiety and fullness: THEY DID EAT AND WERE FILLED, yet twelve baskets remained; more was left than was at first set on. So many bellies, and yet so many b...