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Don`t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
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Remembrance Cures Anxiety
Commentators explain that Jesus's rebuke is a call to action. When the disciples worried about having no bread, Jesus reminded them of His past miracles. The lesson for believers today is to actively remember God's past faithfulness. Recalling how He has provided in big ways helps to build faith and overcome present anxieties.
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19th Century
Anglican
How many baskets—The distinction between the two kinds of baskets—the cophini and the spurides—is, as noted befo…
Baptist
Lack of faith made them so dull and carnal. Lack of bread would not have troubled them if they had possessed more grace. Our Lord essentially says …
Because they were men of little faith (v.8; cf. 6:30; 8:26; 14:31), they came to an unimaginative conclusion. Jesus could not have been talking abo…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Do you not understand Meaning either the sense of the advice he had now given; or rather his almighty power displaye…
Presbyterian
Christ speaks of spiritual things using a comparison, and the disciples misunderstand him, taking his words to refer to carnal things. He was displ…
13th Century
Catholic
Previously, the Lord demonstrated the sufficiency of the Gospel teaching, showing that it does not require legal observances and, furthermore, that…
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