Twelve baskets. Baskets belonging to the disciples, in which they carried their provisions, or, perhaps, belonging to some of the multitud…

Theophylact of Ohrid: The Lord, first placing before them what is most profitable—that is, the food of the word of God—afte…

There can be no question but that Mark understood the actions of Jesus to have been miraculous. Not only were all the people fed and their hunger s…

And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments
Of the broken pieces of bread, after all had eaten, and were s…

Ministers should do or teach only what they are willing to have told to their Lord. Christ notices the fears of some and the labors of others among…