Matthew 15:33

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Matthew 15:31–35 · Berean Standard Bible

31 The crowd was amazed when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled restored, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.

32 Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.”

33 The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”

34 “How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”

35 And He instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground.

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Numbers 11:21

But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

Numbers 11:22

If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

2 Kings 4:42

Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.

2 Kings 4:43

But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”

2 Kings 4:44

So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.

Mark 6:37

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”

Mark 8:4

His disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could anyone find enough bread to feed all these people?”

Mark 8:5

“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied.

John 6:5

When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”

John 6:6

But He was asking this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do.

John 6:7

Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”

Matthew 14:15

When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”

Luke 9:13

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

John 6:8

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,

John 6:9

“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”