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class="vheadingv">Verse<a href="/bsb/matthew/15.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><a href="/niv/matthew/15.htm">New International Version</a> His disciples answered, &#8220Where could we get enough bread in this remote place to feed such a crowd?&#8221 <a href="/nlt/matthew/15.htm">New Living Translation</a> The disciples replied, “Where would we get enough food here in the wilderness for such a huge crowd?” <a href="/esv/matthew/15.htm">English Standard Version</a> And the disciples said to him, “Where are we to get enough bread in such a desolate place to feed so great a crowd?” <a href="/bsb/matthew/15.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?” <a href="/blb/matthew/15.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> And the disciples say to Him, "From where will be to us in a secluded place so many loaves, as so great a crowd to satisfy?" <a href="/kjv/matthew/15.htm">King James Bible</a> And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude? <a href="/nkjv/matthew/15.htm">New King James Version</a> Then His disciples said to Him, “Where could we get enough bread in the wilderness to fill such a great multitude?” <a href="/nasb_/matthew/15.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> The disciples said to Him, “Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?” <a href="/nasb/matthew/15.htm">NASB 1995</a> The disciples said to Him, &#8220Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?&#8221 <a href="/nasb77/matthew/15.htm">NASB 1977 </a> And the disciples said to Him, “Where would we get so many loaves in a desolate place to satisfy such a great multitude?” <a href="/lsb/matthew/15.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> And the disciples said to Him, “Where would we get so many loaves in this desolate place to satisfy such a large crowd?” <a href="/amp/matthew/15.htm">Amplified Bible</a> The disciples said to Him, “Where are we to get enough bread in this isolated place to feed so large a crowd?” <a href="/csb/matthew/15.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> The disciples said to him, “Where could we get enough bread in this desolate place to feed such a crowd? ” <a href="/hcsb/matthew/15.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> The disciples said to Him, &#8220Where could we get enough bread in this desolate place to fill such a crowd?&#8221 <a href="/asv/matthew/15.htm">American Standard Version</a> And the disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a desert place as to fill so great a multitude? <a href="/cev/matthew/15.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> His disciples said, "This place is like a desert. Where can we find enough food to feed such a crowd?" <a href="/erv/matthew/15.htm">English Revised Version</a> And the disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so many loaves in a desert place, as to fill so great a multitude? <a href="/gwt/matthew/15.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> His disciples asked him, "Where could we get enough bread to feed such a crowd in this place where no one lives?" <a href="/gnt/matthew/15.htm">Good News Translation</a> The disciples asked him, "Where will we find enough food in this desert to feed this crowd?" <a href="/isv/matthew/15.htm">International Standard Version</a> The disciples asked him, "Where in the wilderness are we to get enough bread to feed such a crowd?" <a href="/msb/matthew/15.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> His disciples replied, ?Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?? <a href="/net/matthew/15.htm">NET Bible</a> The disciples said to him, "Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?" <a href="/nheb/matthew/15.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Then the disciples said to him, "Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a crowd?" <a href="/wbt/matthew/15.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to satisfy so great a multitude? <a href="/wey/matthew/15.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> "Where can we," asked the disciples, "get bread enough in this remote place to satisfy so vast a multitude?" <a href="/web/matthew/15.htm">World English Bible</a> The disciples said to him, “Where could we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?” <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/matthew/15.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> And His disciples say to Him, “From where to us in a wilderness [will we get] so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?” <a href="/blb/matthew/15.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> And the disciples say to Him, "From where will be to us in a secluded place so many loaves, as so great a crowd to satisfy?" <a href="/ylt/matthew/15.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> And his disciples say to him, 'Whence to us, in a wilderness, so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?' <a href="/slt/matthew/15.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> And his disciples say to him, Whence to us, in a lonely place, so many loaves, to satisfy such a crowd?<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/matthew/15.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude? <a href="/cpdv/matthew/15.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> And the disciples said to him: “From where, then, in the desert, would we obtain enough bread to satisfy so a great multitude?” <a href="/nabre/matthew/15.htm">New American Bible</a> The disciples said to him, “Where could we ever get enough bread in this deserted place to satisfy such a crowd?” <a href="/nrsvce/matthew/15.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> The disciples said to him, “Where are we to get enough bread in the desert to feed so great a crowd?”<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/matthew/15.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> His disciples said to him, Where can we get bread in this desolate place to feed all this people? <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/matthew/15.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> His disciples were saying to him, “Where is bread for us in the wilderness that will satisfy this whole crowd?<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/matthew/15.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> And his disciples said to him: Whence should we have in the desert as many loaves as would satisfy so great a multitude? <a href="/godbey/matthew/15.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> And His disciples say to Him, Whence is there to us so much bread in the wilderness, as to feed so great a multitude? <a href="/haweis/matthew/15.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> And his disciples said unto him, Whence can we in the wilderness have loaves enough to satisfy the cravings of so great a multitude? <a href="/mace/matthew/15.htm">Mace New Testament</a> how can we get bread enough in the desert to satisfy such a multitude? <a href="/wey/matthew/15.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> "Where can we," asked the disciples, "get bread enough in this remote place to satisfy so vast a multitude?" <a href="/worrell/matthew/15.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> And His disciples say to Him, "Whence should we, in a wilderness, have so many loaves as to satisfy so great a multitude?" <a href="/worsley/matthew/15.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> And his disciples replied, Whence can we have so much bread in this desert place as to satisfy so great a multitude? <a href="/parallel/matthew/15-33.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hriiyJYqzvc?start=4485" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/matthew/15.htm">The Feeding of the Four Thousand</a> …32Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to send them away hungry, or they may faint along the way.” 33<a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: Kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. "></a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: hoi (Art-NMP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">The</a> <a href="/greek/3101.htm" title="3101: mathētai (N-NMP) -- A learner, disciple, pupil. From manthano; a learner, i.e. Pupil.">disciples</a> <a href="/greek/3004.htm" title="3004: legousin (V-PIA-3P) -- (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. ">replied,</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autō (PPro-DM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons."></a> <a href="/greek/4159.htm" title="4159: Pothen (Adv) -- From the base of posis with enclitic adverb of origin; from which or what place, state, source or cause.">“Where</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/2047.htm" title="2047: erēmia (N-DFS) -- A desert place, desert, uninhabited region. From eremos; solitude.">this desolate place</a> <a href="/greek/1473.htm" title="1473: hēmin (PPro-D1P) -- I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I.">could we find</a> <a href="/greek/5118.htm" title="5118: tosoutoi (DPro-NMP) -- So great, so large, so long, so many. From tosos and houtos; so vast as this, i.e. Such.">enough</a> <a href="/greek/740.htm" title="740: artoi (N-NMP) -- Bread, a loaf, food. From airo; bread or a loaf.">bread</a> <a href="/greek/5620.htm" title="5620: hōste (Conj) -- So that, therefore, so then, so as to. From hos and te; so too, i.e. Thus therefore."></a> <a href="/greek/5526.htm" title="5526: chortasai (V-ANA) -- To feed, satisfy, fatten. From chortos; to fodder, i.e. to gorge.">to feed</a> <a href="/greek/5118.htm" title="5118: tosouton (DPro-AMS) -- So great, so large, so long, so many. From tosos and houtos; so vast as this, i.e. Such.">such a large</a> <a href="/greek/3793.htm" title="3793: ochlon (N-AMS) -- From a derivative of echo; a throng; by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot.">crowd?”</a> 34“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked. “Seven,” they replied, “and a few small fish.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/mark/8-4.htm">Mark 8:4</a> His disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could anyone find enough bread to feed all these people?” <a href="/john/6-5.htm">John 6:5-7</a> When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?” / But He was asking this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do. / Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.” <a href="/2_kings/4-42.htm">2 Kings 4:42-44</a> Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha. / But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’” / So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD. <a href="/exodus/16-3.htm">Exodus 16:3-4</a> “If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!” / Then the LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will rain down bread from heaven for you. Each day the people are to go out and gather enough for that day. In this way I will test whether or not they will follow My instructions. <a href="/numbers/11-21.htm">Numbers 11:21-23</a> But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’ / If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?” / The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.” <a href="/john/6-9.htm">John 6:9-13</a> “Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?” / “Have the people sit down,” Jesus said. Now there was plenty of grass in that place, so the men sat down, about five thousand of them. / Then Jesus took the loaves and the fish, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. ... <a href="/matthew/14-15.htm">Matthew 14:15-21</a> When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.” / “They do not need to go away,” Jesus replied. “You give them something to eat.” / “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered. ... <a href="/mark/6-35.htm">Mark 6:35-44</a> By now the hour was already late. So the disciples came to Jesus and said, “This is a desolate place, and the hour is already late. / Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” / But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?” ... <a href="/luke/9-12.htm">Luke 9:12-17</a> As the day neared its end, the Twelve came to Jesus and said, “Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside for lodging and provisions. For we are in a desolate place here.” / But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.” / (There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.” ... <a href="/john/6-1.htm">John 6:1-14</a> After this, Jesus crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias). / A large crowd followed Him because they saw the signs He was performing on the sick. / Then Jesus went up on the mountain and sat down with His disciples. ... <a href="/psalms/78-19.htm">Psalm 78:19-20</a> They spoke against God, saying, “Can God really prepare a table in the wilderness? / When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?” <a href="/psalms/132-15.htm">Psalm 132:15</a> I will bless her with abundant provisions; I will satisfy her poor with bread. <a href="/isaiah/55-1.htm">Isaiah 55:1-2</a> “Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you without money, come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost! / Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods. <a href="/1_kings/17-12.htm">1 Kings 17:12-16</a> But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.” / “Do not be afraid,” Elijah said to her. “Go and do as you have said. But first make me a small cake of bread from what you have, and bring it out to me. Afterward, make some for yourself and your son, / for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘The jar of flour will not be exhausted and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the LORD sends rain upon the face of the earth.’” ... <a href="/2_kings/7-1.htm">2 Kings 7:1-2</a> Then Elisha said, “Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the LORD says: ‘About this time tomorrow at the gate of Samaria, a seah of fine flour will sell for a shekel, and two seahs of barley will sell for a shekel.’” / But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will not eat any of it.”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>And his disciples say to him, From where should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?Whence.<a href="/numbers/11-21.htm">Numbers 11:21,22</a> And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month… <a href="/2_kings/4-42.htm">2 Kings 4:42-44</a> And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat… <a href="/mark/6-37.htm">Mark 6:37</a> He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?to fill.<a href="/matthew/14-15.htm">Matthew 14:15</a> And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.<a href="/luke/9-13.htm">Luke 9:13</a> But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.<a href="/john/6-8.htm">John 6:8,9</a> One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, … <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/matthew/15-26.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/matthew/15-32.htm">Crowd</a> <a href="/matthew/14-15.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/matthew/14-15.htm">Deserted</a> <a href="/matthew/14-15.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/matthew/15-32.htm">Disciples</a> <a href="/matthew/14-20.htm">Enough</a> <a href="/matthew/9-16.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/matthew/15-20.htm">Food</a> <a href="/matthew/15-30.htm">Great</a> <a href="/matthew/14-19.htm">Loaves</a> <a href="/matthew/15-32.htm">Multitude</a> <a href="/matthew/14-15.htm">Remote</a> <a href="/joel/2-19.htm">Satisfy</a> <a href="/matthew/13-2.htm">Vast</a> <a href="/matthew/14-15.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/matthew/13-56.htm">Whence</a> <a href="/matthew/11-7.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/matthew/15-34.htm">Bread</a> <a href="/matthew/15-35.htm">Crowd</a> <a href="/matthew/24-26.htm">Desert</a> <a href="/matthew/26-56.htm">Deserted</a> <a href="/matthew/23-38.htm">Desolate</a> <a href="/matthew/15-36.htm">Disciples</a> <a href="/matthew/15-37.htm">Enough</a> <a href="/matthew/23-32.htm">Fill</a> <a href="/matthew/15-37.htm">Food</a> <a href="/matthew/17-6.htm">Great</a> <a href="/matthew/15-34.htm">Loaves</a> <a href="/matthew/15-35.htm">Multitude</a> <a href="/matthew/21-33.htm">Remote</a> <a href="/matthew/28-14.htm">Satisfy</a> <a href="/matthew/19-2.htm">Vast</a> <a href="/matthew/23-38.htm">Waste</a> <a href="/matthew/21-25.htm">Whence</a> <a href="/matthew/24-26.htm">Wilderness</a><div class="vheading2">Matthew 15</div>1. <a href="/matthew/15-1.htm">Jesus reproves the Scribes and Pharisees </a> 7. <a href="/matthew/15-7.htm">for transgressing God's commandments through their own traditions;</a> 10. <a href="/matthew/15-10.htm">teaches how that which goes into the mouth does not defile a man.</a> 21. <a href="/matthew/15-21.htm">He heals the daughter of the woman of Canaan,</a> 29. <a href="/matthew/15-29.htm">and other great multitudes;</a> 32. <a href="/matthew/15-32.htm">and with seven loaves and a few small fish feeds four thousand men</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/matthew/15.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/matthew/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/matthew/15.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>The disciples replied The disciples often served as the immediate audience for Jesus' teachings and miracles. Their responses provide insight into their understanding and faith development. Here, their reply reflects a moment of doubt or lack of understanding, which is a recurring theme in the Gospels. This moment is reminiscent of their earlier experiences, such as the feeding of the 5,000, where they also questioned the logistics of feeding a large crowd.“Where in this desolate place The setting is significant, as it emphasizes the isolation and lack of resources. The term "desolate place" suggests a wilderness or remote area, which is a common setting for divine provision in the Bible, such as the Israelites receiving manna in the desert (Exodus 16). This setting underscores the miraculous nature of what Jesus is about to do, highlighting His ability to provide abundantly in seemingly impossible circumstances.could we find enough bread Bread is a staple food and symbolizes sustenance and life. In biblical terms, bread often represents God's provision. The disciples' question reflects a human perspective focused on physical limitations and scarcity. This moment foreshadows Jesus' teaching about being the "bread of life" (<a href="/john/6-35.htm">John 6:35</a>), where He explains that He is the ultimate source of spiritual nourishment.to feed such a large crowd?” The mention of a "large crowd" emphasizes the magnitude of the miracle that is about to occur. It highlights the contrast between human inability and divine capability. This crowd, likely numbering in the thousands, represents the widespread need for Jesus' message and provision. The feeding of the multitude is a type of the Messianic banquet, a prophetic image of the abundance and inclusivity of God's kingdom (<a href="/isaiah/25-6.htm">Isaiah 25:6</a>).<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jesus.htm">Jesus</a> The central figure of the New Testament, performing miracles and teaching about the Kingdom of God. 2. <a href="/topical/t/the_disciples.htm">The Disciples</a> Followers of Jesus who are learning from His teachings and witnessing His miracles. 3. <a href="/topical/t/the_large_crowd.htm">The Large Crowd</a> A multitude of people who have gathered to hear Jesus teach and witness His miracles. 4. <a href="/topical/d/desolate_place.htm">Desolate Place</a> A remote area where resources are scarce, highlighting the challenge of feeding the crowd. 5. <a href="/topical/m/miracle_of_feeding.htm">Miracle of Feeding</a> This event sets the stage for Jesus to perform a miracle, demonstrating His divine provision.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/trust_in_divine_provision.htm">Trust in Divine Provision</a> Just as Jesus provided for the crowd in a desolate place, we can trust God to meet our needs, even in seemingly impossible situations. <a href="/topical/r/recognizing_human_limitations.htm">Recognizing Human Limitations</a> The disciples' question reflects human limitations and doubt. We must recognize our limitations and rely on God's unlimited power. <a href="/topical/c/compassion_for_others.htm">Compassion for Others</a> Jesus' concern for the crowd's physical needs teaches us to have compassion and seek to meet the needs of those around us. <a href="/topical/f/faith_in_action.htm">Faith in Action</a> The disciples' role in distributing the bread shows that faith often requires action. We are called to be active participants in God's work. <a href="/topical/s/spiritual_nourishment.htm">Spiritual Nourishment</a> Beyond physical needs, Jesus offers spiritual nourishment. We should seek Him as the source of our spiritual sustenance.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_matthew_15.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Matthew 15</a> <a href="/q/disciples'_reaction_to_jesus_walking_on_water.htm">How did the disciples react when Jesus walked on water? They worshipped him as the Son of God (Matthew 14:33) but were astounded and didn't understand (Mark 6:51-52).</a> <a href="/q/does_daniel_11_31_conflict_with_matt_24_15.htm">Does the 'abomination of desolation' in Daniel 11:31 conflict with similar references in Matthew 24:15 and Mark 13:14, suggesting multiple or differing events?</a> <a href="/q/evidence_for_'abomination'_in_matt_24_15.htm">Where is the historical or archaeological evidence for the 'abomination of desolation' mentioned in Matthew 24:15?</a> <a href="/q/how_did_5_loaves,_2_fish_feed_thousands.htm">In Matthew 14:15-21, how can five loaves and two fish realistically feed thousands of people?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/matthew/15.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(33) His disciples say unto him.--Here, on the assumption that we are dealing with a true record, a difficulty of another kind meets us. How was it, we ask, that the disciples, with the memory of the former miracle still fresh in their recollection, should answer as before with the same child-like perplexity? Why did they not at once assume that the same divine power could be put forth to meet a like want now? The answers to that question may, perhaps, be grouped as follows:--(1.) It is not easy for us to put ourselves in the position of men who witnessed, as they did, these workings of a supernatural might. We think of the Power as inherent, and therefore permanent. To them it might seem intermittent, a gift that came and went. Their daily necessities had been supplied, before and after the great event, in the common way of gift or purchase. The gathering of the fragments (<a href="/matthew/14-20.htm" title="And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.">Matthew 14:20</a>; <a href="/john/6-12.htm" title="When they were filled, he said to his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.">John 6:12</a>) seemed to imply that they were not to rely on the repetition of the wonder. (2.) The fact that three days had passed, and that hunger had been allowed to pass on to the borders of exhaustion, might well have led to think that the power was not to be exerted now. (3.) Our Lord's implied question--though, as before, He Himself "knew what He would do" (<a href="/john/6-6.htm" title="And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.">John 6:6</a>)--must have appeared to them to exclude the thought that He was about to make use again of that reserve of power which He had displayed before. They would seem to themselves to be simply following in His footsteps when they answered His question as on the level which He Himself thus appeared to choose.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/matthew/15.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 33. - Whence should we have so much bread, etc.? Christ had said nothing to his disciples concerning his design of feeding the people, but his remarks pointed to the possibility of such a design, and the apostles at once throw cold water upon the project. They do not indeed, as they did before urge him to send the multitude away, that they may supply their own needs, but they emphasize the impossibility of carrying out the idea of feeding them. Their answer bristles with objections. The place is uninhabited; the multitude is numerous; the quantity of food required is enormous; and how can we, poor and needy as we are, help them? It seems to us incredible that they could return this answer, after having, net very long before, experienced the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand. They seemed now to have forgotten the earlier marvel, and to be in utter doubt how the necessary food was to be provided on the present occasion. That Christ would display his miraculous powers appears not to have crossed their minds. Such surprising forgetfulness and slowness of faith have seemed to some critics so unlikely and unusual, that they have regarded the apostles' attitude as confirming their assumption of the identity of the two miracles of feeding. But really such conduct is true to human nature. Calvin, while he condemns in vehement terms the disciples' dulness - "nimis brutum produnt stuporem" - is careful to add that men are always liable to a similar insensibility, prone to forget past deliverance in the face of present difficulty. Immediately after the passage of the Red Sea, the people feared that they would perish of thirst in the wilderness; and when God promised to give them flesh to eat, even Moses doubted the possibility of the supply, and asked whence it could be provided (<a href="/exodus/17-1.htm">Exodus 17:1</a>, etc.; <a href="/numbers/11-21.htm">Numbers 11:21</a>, etc.). How often did Jesus speak of his sufferings, death, and resurrection! And yet these events came upon believers as a surprise for which they were altogether unprepared. Continually the disciples forgot what they ought to have remembered, drew no proper inferences from what they had seen and experienced, and had to be taught the same lessons repeatedly under different circumstances. Since the first miraculous meal many events had happened; often possibly they had been in want of food, as when on the sabbath day they appeased their hunger with ears of corn plucked by the way, and Christ had worked no miracle for their relief. It did not immediately suggest itself to them to have recourse to their Master in the emergency; they were very far from expecting Divine interposition at every turn. If they thought at all of the former miracle, they may have looked upon it as the outcome of an intermittent power, not always at command, or at any rate not likely to be exercised on the present occasion. They were slow to apprehend Christ's Divine mission and character. The acknowledgment of his Messiahship did net necessarily connote the realization of his Godhead. In the writings of this and the immediately preceding period we see that the great Prophet, Prince, Conqueror, who is to appear, is not God, but one commissioned by God, and at most a God-inspired man or angel. So the apostles were only in unison with the best of their contemporaries when at present they hesitated to believe in, and were incapable of apprehending, the Divine nature of Christ. <a href="/commentaries/matthew/15-33.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>The οἱ (hoi) Article - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. disciples μαθηταί (mathētai) Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3101.htm">Strong's 3101: </a> A learner, disciple, pupil. From manthano; a learner, i.e. Pupil. replied, λέγουσιν (legousin) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3004.htm">Strong's 3004: </a> (a) I say, speak; I mean, mention, tell, (b) I call, name, especially in the pass., (c) I tell, command. “Where Πόθεν (Pothen) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_4159.htm">Strong's 4159: </a> From the base of posis with enclitic adverb of origin; from which or what place, state, source or cause. in ἐν (en) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. this desolate place ἐρημίᾳ (erēmia) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2047.htm">Strong's 2047: </a> A desert place, desert, uninhabited region. From eremos; solitude. can we [find] ἡμῖν (hēmin) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 1st Person Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_1473.htm">Strong's 1473: </a> I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. enough τοσοῦτοι (tosoutoi) Demonstrative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_5118.htm">Strong's 5118: </a> So great, so large, so long, so many. From tosos and houtos; so vast as this, i.e. Such. bread ἄρτοι (artoi) Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_740.htm">Strong's 740: </a> Bread, a loaf, food. From airo; bread or a loaf. to feed χορτάσαι (chortasai) Verb - Aorist Infinitive Active <a href="/greek/strongs_5526.htm">Strong's 5526: </a> To feed, satisfy, fatten. From chortos; to fodder, i.e. to gorge. such a large τοσοῦτον (tosouton) Demonstrative Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_5118.htm">Strong's 5118: </a> So great, so large, so long, so many. From tosos and houtos; so vast as this, i.e. Such. crowd?” ὄχλον (ochlon) Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3793.htm">Strong's 3793: </a> From a derivative of echo; a throng; by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/matthew/15-33.htm">Matthew 15:33 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/matthew/15-33.htm">NT Gospels: Matthew 15:33 The disciples said to him Where should (Matt. 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