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They all ate and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.
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Verse 37. Seven baskets full remained, to intimate that God remunerates with a liberal hand all alms given for his sake. Various are the circumstances attending the present multiplication of the loaves with that in the preceding chapter. In the former, there were five loaves and two fishes; here there are seven loaves and a few little fishes: In the former, 5,000 men were filled, here 4,000: in the former case, 12 baskets full of fragments remained, here seven. Tirinus.—All which sufficiently prove that these were two distinct miracles, to both of which Jesus Christ refers in chap. 16, verse 9. and 10. A.
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