Matthew 14:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἔφαγον πάντες, καὶ ἐχορτάσθησαν: καὶ ἦραν τὸ περισσεῦον τῶν κλασμάτων δώδεκα κοφίνους πλήρεις.

Transliteration

And ephagon all, and echortasthēsan: and ēran the perisseuon of the klasmatōn twelve kophinous plēreis.

Grammar Details

• *ephagon*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they ate
• *echortasthēsan*: aorist, passive, indicative, 3rd person plural - they were satisfied
• *ēran*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they took up
• *perisseuon*: present, active, participle, accusative, neuter, singular - remaining over
• *klasmatōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - fragments/broken pieces
• *kophinous*: accusative, masculine, plural - baskets
• *plēreis*: accusative, masculine, plural - full

Word Meanings

• *ephagon*: they ate/consumed
• *echortasthēsan*: they were satisfied/filled/had enough
• *perisseuon*: remaining over/surplus/leftover
• *klasmatōn*: fragments/broken pieces/pieces
• *kophinous*: baskets/containers

Referenced Verses

• Matt 16:8-9 : 8 And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread? 9 Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up? 10 Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
• Mark 6:42-44 : 42 And they all took of the food and had enough. 43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken bits and of the fishes. 44 And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.
• Mark 8:8-9 : 8 And they took the food, and had enough; and they took up seven baskets full of the broken bits. 9 And there were about four thousand people: and he sent them away.
• Luke 1:53 : 53 Those who had no food he made full of good things; the men of wealth he sent away with nothing in their hands;
• Luke 9:17 : 17 And they all took the food and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits which were over, twelve baskets full.
• John 6:7 : 7 Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.
• John 6:11-14 : 11 Then Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had need of. 12 And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted. 13 So they took them up: twelve baskets full of broken bits of the five cakes which were over after the people had had enough. 14 And when the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, Truly, this is the prophet who is to come into the world.
• Mark 8:16-21 : 16 And they said to one another, We have no bread. 17 And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Why are you reasoning among yourselves because you have no bread? do you still not see, and is it still not clear to you? are your hearts so hard? 18 Having eyes, do you not see? and having ears, have you no hearing? and have you no memory? 19 When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve. 20 And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven. 21 And he said to them, Is it still not clear to you?
• Exod 16:8 : 8 And Moses said, The Lord will give you meat for your food at evening, and in the morning bread in full measure; for your outcry against the Lord has come to his ears: for what are we? your outcry is not against us but against the Lord.
• Exod 16:12 : 12 The outcry of the children of Israel has come to my ears: say to them now, At nightfall you will have meat for your food, and in the morning bread in full measure; and you will see that I am the Lord your God.
• Lev 26:26 : 26 When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.
• 1 Kgs 17:12-16 : 12 Then she said, By the life of the Lord your God, I have nothing but a little meal in my store, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death. 13 And Elijah said to her, Have no fear; go and do as you have said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me, and then make something for yourself and your son. 14 For this is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: The store of meal will not come to an end, and the bottle will never be without oil, till the day when the Lord sends rain on the earth. 15 So she went and did as Elijah said; and she and he and her family had food for a long time. 16 The store of meal did not come to an end, and the bottle was never without oil, as the Lord had said by the mouth of Elijah.
• 2 Kgs 4:1-7 : 1 Now a certain woman, the wife of one of the sons of the prophets, came crying to Elisha and said, Your servant my husband is dead; and to your knowledge he was a worshipper of the Lord; but now, the creditor has come to take my two children as servants in payment of his debt. 2 Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil. 3 Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them. 4 Then go in, and, shutting the door on yourself and your sons, put oil into all these vessels, putting on one side the full ones. 5 So she went away, and when the door was shut on her and her sons, they took the vessels to her and she put oil into them. 6 And when all the vessels were full, she said to her son, Get me another vessel. And he said, There are no more. And the flow of oil was stopped. 7 So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.
• 2 Kgs 4:43-44 : 43 But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over. 44 So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.
• Prov 13:25 : 25 The upright man has food to the full measure of his desire, but there will be no food for the stomach of evil-doers.
• Ezek 4:14-16 : 14 Then I said, Ah, Lord! see, my soul has never been unclean, and I have never taken as my food anything which has come to a natural death or has been broken by beasts, from the time when I was young even till now; no disgusting flesh has ever come into my mouth. 15 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it. 16 And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:
• Hag 1:6 : 6 Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.
• Matt 5:6 : 6 Happy are those whose heart's desire is for righteousness: for they will have their desire.
• Matt 15:33 : 33 And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?
• Matt 15:37-38 : 37 And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full. 38 And there were four thousand men who took food, together with women and children.