17 And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
17 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
17 And they all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was picked up, twelve baskets of broken pieces.
17 After the people had all eaten their fill, twelve baskets of leftovers were gathered up.
17 So they all ate and were filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.
17 They all ate as much as they wanted, and afterward, the disciples picked up twelve baskets of leftovers!
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Luke 9:17
Commentary on Luke 9:10-17
(Read Luke 9:10-17)
The people followed Jesus, and though they came unseasonably, yet he gave them what they came for. He spake unto them of the kingdom of God. He healed those who had need of healing. And with five loaves of bread and two fishes, Christ fed five thousand men. He will not see those that fear him, and serve him faithfully, want any good thing. When we receive creature-comforts, we must acknowledge that we receive them from God, and that we are unworthy to receive them; that we owe them all, and all the comfort we have in them, to the mediation of Christ, by whom the curse is taken away. The blessing of Christ will make a little go a great way. He fills every hungry soul, abundantly satisfies it with the goodness of his house. Here were fragments taken up: in our Father's house there is bread enough, and to spare. We are not straitened, nor stinted in Christ.