They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
- BSB They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
- NKJV So they all ate and were filled, and they took up seven large baskets full of the fragments that were left.
- NASB And they all ate and were satisfied, and they picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, seven large baskets full.
- NLT They all ate as much as they wanted. Afterward, the disciples picked up seven large baskets of leftover food.
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
Scripture quotations taken from the (NASB®) New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. lockman.org
Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Mark 8:19–21When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”
- Luke 1:53He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.
- Mark 8:8–9They ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
- Matt 15:33The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”
- Matt 14:20–21They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.
- Matt 16:9–10Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
- Ps 107:9For he satisfies the longing soul. He fills the hungry soul with good.
Themes, concepts, people & topics
Resources, by level
Commentaries & study tools
Free animated overview and word-study videos for this book.
Sermons and teaching on this passage from across YouTube.
Clear, readable, conservative exposition — the best free place to start on any passage.
Matthew Henry, Barnes, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Ellicott, Cambridge, and more — stacked on one page for this exact verse.
The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).
Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.
Christ at the center
Matthew presents Jesus as the promised King — son of David, son of Abraham — the new Moses and true Israel in whom every prophecy reaches 'that it might be fulfilled.'
How Matthew 15:37 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.
Original language
Each word below is tagged with its Strong’s number — tap one to see the underlying Greek word, its meaning, and every verse that uses it.