Were filled (ἐχορτάσθησαν)

See on Matthew 5:6.

Baskets (κοφίνους)

Wyc., coffins, a transcription of the Greek word. Juvenal, the Roman satirist, describes the grove of Numa, near the Capenian gate of Rome, as being "let out to the Jews, whose furniture is a basket (cophinus) and some hay" (for a bed), "Sat." iii., 14. These were small hand-baskets, specially provided for the Jews to carry levitically clean food while travelling in Samaria or other heathen districts. The word for basket used in relating the feeding of the four thousand (Matthew 15:37) is σπυρίς, a large provision-basket or hamper, of the kind used for letting Paul down over the wall at Damascus (Acts 9:25). In Matthew 16:9,Matthew 16:10, Christ, in alluding to the two miracles, observes the distinctive term in each narrative; using κοφίνους in the case of the five thousand, and σπυρίδας in the other. Burgon ("Letters from Rome") gives a drawing of a wicker basket used by the masons in the cathedral at Sorrento, and called cffano. He adds, "Who can doubt that the basket of the gospel narrative was of the shape here represented, and that the denomination of this basket exclusively has lingered in a Greek colony, where the Jews (who once carried the cophinus as a personal equipment) formerly lived in great numbers?"

Matthew 14:20 Parallel Commentaries

were.

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Matthew 15:33 And his disciples say to him, From where should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

Exodus 16:8,12 And Moses said, This shall be, when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full...

Leviticus 26:26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven...

1 Kings 17:12-16 And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and...

2 Kings 4:43,44 And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat...

Proverbs 13:25 The righteous eats to the satisfying of his soul: but the belly of the wicked shall want.

Ezekiel 4:14-16 Then said I, Ah Lord GOD! behold, my soul has not been polluted...

Haggai 1:6 You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink...

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

Luke 9:17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was 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 of them may take a little...

and they took.

Matthew 15:37,38 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full...

Matthew 16:8-10 Which when Jesus perceived, he said to them, O you of little faith, why reason you among yourselves, because you have brought no bread...

2 Kings 4:1-7 Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead...

Mark 6:42-44 And they did all eat, and were filled...

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

John 6:12-14 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost...