Matthew 14:20
Good News Translation
Everyone ate and had enough. Then the disciples took up twelve baskets full of what was left over.

New Revised Standard Version
And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full.

Contemporary English Version
After everyone had eaten all they wanted, Jesus' disciples picked up twelve large baskets of leftovers.

New American Bible
They all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up the fragments left over —twelve wicker baskets full.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments.

were.

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

Matthew 15:33 And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?

Exodus 16:8,12 And Moses said: In the evening the Lord will give you flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full: for he hath heard your murmurings, with which you have murmured against him, for what are we? your murmuring is not against us, but against the Lord. . . .

Leviticus 26:26 After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled,

1 Kings 17:12-16 And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruise: behold I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it and die. . . .

2 Kings 4:43,44 And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left. . . .

Proverbs 13:25 The just eateth and filleth his soul: but the belly of the wicked is never to be filled.

Ezekiel 4:14-16 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God, behold my soul hath not been defiled, and from my infancy even till now, I have not eaten any thing that died of itself, or was torn by beasts, and no unclean flesh hath entered into my mouth. . . .

Haggai 1:6 You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes.

Luke 1:53 He hath filled the hungry with good things: and the rich he hath sent empty away.

Luke 9:17 And they did all eat and were filled. And there were taken up of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets.

John 6:7,11 Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one may take a little. . . .

and they took.

Matthew 15:37,38 And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven baskets full, of what remained of the fragments. . . .

Matthew 16:8-10 And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O ye of little faith, for that you have no bread? . . .

2 Kings 4:1-7 Now a certain woman of the wives of the prophets, cried to Eliseus, saying: Thy servant, my husband, is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant was one that feared God, and behold the creditor is come to take away my two sons to serve him. . . .

Mark 6:42-44 And they all did eat, and had their fill. . . .

Mark 8:8,9,16-21 And they did eat and were filled: and they took up that which was left of the fragments, seven baskets. . . .

John 6:12-14 And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost. . . .

Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
19And when he had commanded the multitude to sit down upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitudes. 20And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments. 21And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and children.…
Cross References
2 Kings 4:6
And when the vessels were full, she said to her son: Bring me yet a vessel. And he answered: I have no more. And the oil stood.

2 Kings 4:44
So he set it before them: and they ate, and there was left, according to the word of the Lord.

Matthew 14:21
And the number of them that did eat, was five thousand men, besides women and children.

Matthew 15:37
And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven baskets full, of what remained of the fragments.

Matthew 16:9
Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?

Mark 6:43
And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments, and of the fishes.

Mark 8:8
And they did eat and were filled: and they took up that which was left of the fragments, seven baskets.

Mark 8:19
When I broke the five loves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say to him: Twelve.

Mark 8:20
When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets of fragments took you up? And they say to him: Seven.

Luke 9:17
And they did all eat and were filled. And there were taken up of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets.

John 6:13
They gathered up therefore and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which remained over and above to them that had eaten.

Matthew 14:19
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