The Meaning of Mark 8:19 Explained

Mark 8:19

KJV: When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

YLT: When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' they say to him, 'Twelve.'

Darby: When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say to him, Twelve.

ASV: When I brake the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

When  I brake  the five  loaves  among  five thousand,  how many  baskets  full  of fragments  took ye up?  They say  unto him,  Twelve. 

What does Mark 8:19 Mean?

Context Summary

Mark 8:1-21 - The Demand For Signs Rebuked
Notice the Master's tender considerateness, Mark 8:1-9. He would not have the people faint on their way home. There are distinct differences between this miracle and the feeding of the five thousand. Most of these are evident to the English reader, but that between the baskets used for the fragments is clear only from the original-those used in the case of the five thousand being quite different from the large ones used here, Mark 8:20; Matthew 15:37. Our Lord never repeats His work.
The Savior sighed in the previous chapter over physical need; here He sighs over moral obtuseness, Mark 8:10-21. The language is very strong, and gives a glimpse into the Redeemer's heart. Had the Pharisees been as willing to discern the signs of the age as to read the weather, they must have been able to recognize Him and His claims; but their foolish heart was darkened. Having sighed over the hard-heartedness of the Pharisees, might He not equally have done so over the obtuseness of the Twelve? They thought that He was referring to their carelessness in omitting to take bread. How little they realized that the cause lay far deeper! Let us be quick to read the divine intention in very simple incidents, and to learn that all God's past dealings contain lessons for the present! [source]

Chapter Summary: Mark 8

1  Jesus feeds the people miraculously;
10  refuses to give a sign to the Pharisees;
14  admonishes his disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod;
22  gives a blind man his sight;
27  acknowledges that he is the Jesus who should suffer and rise again;
34  and exhorts to patience in persecution for the profession of the gospel

What do the individual words in Mark 8:19 mean?

When the five loaves I broke for five thousand how many hand-baskets of fragments full took you up They say to Him Twelve
ὅτε τοὺς πέντε ἄρτους ἔκλασα εἰς πεντακισχιλίους πόσους κοφίνους κλασμάτων πλήρεις ἤρατε Λέγουσιν αὐτῷ Δώδεκα

πέντε  five 
Parse: Adjective, Accusative Masculine Plural
Root: πέντε  
Sense: five.
ἄρτους  loaves 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Plural
Root: ἄρτος  
Sense: food composed of flour mixed with water and baked.
ἔκλασα  I  broke 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 1st Person Singular
Root: κλάω  
Sense: to break.
πεντακισχιλίους  five  thousand 
Parse: Adjective, Accusative Masculine Plural
Root: πεντακισχίλιοι  
Sense: five thousand.
πόσους  how  many 
Parse: Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun, Accusative Masculine Plural
Root: πόσος  
Sense: how great.
κοφίνους  hand-baskets 
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Plural
Root: κόφινος  
Sense: a basket, wicker basket.
κλασμάτων  of  fragments 
Parse: Noun, Genitive Neuter Plural
Root: κλάσμα  
Sense: a fragment, broken piece.
πλήρεις  full 
Parse: Adjective, Accusative Masculine Plural
Root: πλήρης  
Sense: full, i.e. filled up (as opposed to empty).
ἤρατε  took  you  up 
Parse: Verb, Aorist Indicative Active, 2nd Person Plural
Root: αἴρω  
Sense: to raise up, elevate, lift up.
Λέγουσιν  They  say 
Parse: Verb, Present Indicative Active, 3rd Person Plural
Root: λέγω 
Sense: to say, to speak.
αὐτῷ  to  Him 
Parse: Personal / Possessive Pronoun, Dative Masculine 3rd Person Singular
Root: αὐτός  
Sense: himself, herself, themselves, itself.
Δώδεκα  Twelve 
Parse: Adjective, Accusative Masculine Plural
Root: δώδεκα  
Sense: twelve.

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