Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
We have here Christ's discourse with his disciples concerning bread, in which, as in many other discourses, he speaks to them of spiritual things under a similitude, and they misunderstand him of carnal things. The occasion of it was, their forgetting to victual their ship, and to take along with them provisions for their family on the other side of the water; usually they carried...
Commenting on Matthew 16:5-12
Do ye not understand,.... Meaning either the sense of the advice he had now given; or rather his almighty power displayed in the two miracles of feeding five thousand at one time, and four thousand at another, with a very small quantity of provision; for to this the word "understand" refers, as well as the following: neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand...
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? (e) That five thousand men were filled with so many loaves?