Mark 8:20

20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

Mark 8:20 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 8:20

And when the seven among four thousand
That is, when seven loaves were broken among four thousand men,

how many baskets full of fragments took ye up?
this surely you must remember, it being so recent an action, but just done, as it were:

and they said, seven;
for this, as yet, could not have slipped their memories; though they had, been reasoning among themselves because of their straitness of provisions, as if these things had never been done.

Mark 8:20 In-Context

18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

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

20 And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.

21 And he said to them, How is it that ye do not understand?

22 And he cometh to Bethsaida; and they bring a blind man to him, and besought him to touch him.