And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

And he ordered the multitude to lie down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and broke, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude.

And they ate, and were filled; and they took up of the fragments that remained, seven baskets.

When also the seven among the four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did ye take up? And they say, Seven.

There were seven brothers; and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

And the seven left no seed. Last of all, the woman also died.

In the resurrection, when they have risen, of which of them will she be wife? for the seven had her for a wife.

{The remaining twelve verses, according to Tischendorf and others, made originally no part of Marks Gospel. As the passage was added very early, however, since it is referred to by Irenaeus in the latter part of the second century, it is here given, as an appendix.} [And having risen early, on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons.