'Baskets' in the Bible
Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets full of leftover pieces!
They all ate and were filled. Then they collected the leftover pieces—seven large baskets full.
Don’t you understand yet? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the 5,000 and how many baskets you collected?
Or the seven loaves for the 4,000 and how many large baskets you collected?
Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish.
They ate and were filled. Then they collected seven large baskets of leftover pieces.
When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”“Twelve,” they told Him.
“When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”“Seven,” they said.
Everyone ate and was filled. Then they picked up 12 baskets of leftover pieces.
So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.