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Matthew 16:9 Explained in Context

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Verse 9. Do 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.

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Read Matthew 16:5–16:12 — Bread misunderstanding gives way to a warning about teaching
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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

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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

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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

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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

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