“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Seven.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 8:20 in context
Mark 8:17–23
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Jesus, perceiving it, said to them, “Why do you reason that it’s because you have no bread? Don’t you perceive yet or understand? Is your heart still hardened?
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Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
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When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Twelve.”
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“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?”
They told him, “Seven.”
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He asked them, “Don’t you understand yet?”
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He came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to him and begged him to touch him.
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He took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village. When he had spat on his eyes, and laid his hands on him, he asked him if he saw anything.
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