Matthew 15:33. Whence should we have so many loaves. The question may seem strange after the miraculous feeding of the five thousand. But it was not so strange as their subsequent reasoning about the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees (chap. Matthew 16:6-12). Our own forgetfulness and unbelief should make us wonder less at the ‘little faith' of the disciples. In the previous case the disciples emphasized the amount of bread needed (‘two hundred pennyworth'); in this, the fact that they are in a desert place.

Fill. The long fast called for plentiful provision. Comp. Mark 8:4, where the same word is translated ‘satisfy ‘in the common version.

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