Matthew 14:20

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Summary

Matthew 14:20

And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

Were

And they took

General references

Mark 6:42

Bible References

Were

Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

The disciples replied: Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?

Moses said: This will happen when Jehovah gives you meat to eat in the evening, and bread to eat in the morning. Jehovah hears your complaints against him. And what are we? Your complaints are not against us but against Jehovah.

I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.

Then she said: By the life of Jehovah your God, I have nothing but a little meal, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.

He asked: How am I to feed a hundred hungry men with this? Elisha replied: Give it to them to eat, because Jehovah says that they will eat and still have some left over. (Matthew 14:20)

The righteous eats to satisfaction. The belly of the wicked is in need.

But I replied: No, O Lord Jehovah! I have never defiled myself. From childhood on I have never eaten meat from any animal that died a natural death or was killed by wild animals. I have never eaten any food considered unclean.

You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.

He fills the hungry with good things and sends the rich away empty handed.

They ate and were all filled. Twelve baskets of left over pieces remained.

Philip answered: Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is not sufficient for everyone to take a little.

And they took

They all ate and were satisfied. When they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, there were seven large baskets full.

Hearing this, Jesus said: You of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves about not having bread?

The widow of a member of a group of prophets said to Elisha: My husband has died! As you know, he was a man who respected God. A man to whom he owed money came to take away my two sons as slaves in payment for my husband's debt.

They all ate and were filled.

After eating they picked up seven baskets full of food.

When they were filled he told the disciples to gather up the broken pieces left over so nothing would be wasted.

General references

They all ate and were filled.