Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Matthew 16:9 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 9. 9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
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Quick Meaning
Reminds them of five loaves, five thousand people, and twelve baskets.
Read It With
- Matthew 16:5–16:12
Read Matthew 16:9 with 16:5–16:12. In isolation, this verse's contribution—reminds them of five loaves, five thousand people, and twelve baskets—can be detached from its speaker, audience, narrative or teaching sequence, and outcome. The complete unit establishes: Across the lake disciples worry about forgotten bread, Jesus recalls both feedings and their leftovers, and they finally grasp that leaven signifies Pharisaic and Sadducean teaching.
What Remains True
Across the lake disciples worry about forgotten bread, Jesus recalls both feedings and their leftovers, and they finally grasp that leaven signifies Pharisaic and Sadducean teaching. Matthew 16:9's proportionate contribution is this: Reminds them of five loaves, five thousand people, and twelve baskets.
How It Can Shape Life
- Matthew 16:9 contributes this specific claim: Reminds them of five loaves, five thousand people, and twelve baskets. Correct a misunderstanding by naming the actual danger and recalling relevant evidence, rather than shaming learners or treating one group's teaching as ethnic contamination.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Matthew 16:5–16:12 — Bread misunderstanding gives way to a warning about teachingSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Matthew 16:5–16:12, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control without treating one edition as a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text file data/sblgnt/text/Matt.txt, Matthew 16:5–16:12
Open the Matthew Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for the expressions actually discussed in this thought unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data TAGNT rows for Matthew 16:5–16:12
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Matthew with Translators' and Textual Notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2005-2026 online edition
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, historical, Jewish-background, and Synoptic notes for this unit.
Exact location: NET Bible Matthew PDF, printed pp. 1808-1867, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 16:5–16:12
Open source ↗