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Mar 8:8 — So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken [meat] that was left seven baskets.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

and were		This was another incontestable miracle--four thousand men, besides women and children, (Mat 15:28,) fed with seven loaves (or rather cakes) and a few small fishes! Here there must have been a manifest creation of substance--for, they all ate, and were filled. Mar 8:19,20; Psa 107:8,9; Psa 145:16; Mat 16:10; Luk 1:53; Jhn 6:11-13,27,32-35,47-58; Rev 7:16,17
they took		1Ki 17:14-16; 2Ki 4:2-7,42-44

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and were

	Mat 15:28	Then Jesus answered and said unto her, O woman, great [is] thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt. And her daughter was made whole from that very hour.
	Mar 8:19	When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
	Mar 8:20	And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
	Psa 107:8	Oh that [men] would praise the LORD [for] his goodness, and [for] his wonderful works to the children of men!
	Psa 107:9	For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
	Psa 145:16	Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.
	Mat 16:10	Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
	Luk 1:53	He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
	Jhn 6:11	And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
	Jhn 6:12	When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
	Jhn 6:13	Therefore they gathered [them] together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
	Jhn 6:27	Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
	Jhn 6:32	Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
	Jhn 6:33	For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
	Jhn 6:34	Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.
	Jhn 6:35	And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.
	Jhn 6:47	Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.
	Jhn 6:48	I am that bread of life.
	Jhn 6:49	Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
	Jhn 6:50	This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
	Jhn 6:51	I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
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	Rev 7:16	They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.
	Rev 7:17	For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

they took

	1Ki 17:14	For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day [that] the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth.
	1Ki 17:15	And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat [many] days.
	1Ki 17:16	[And] the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
	2Ki 4:2	And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
	2Ki 4:3	Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, [even] empty vessels; borrow not a few.
	2Ki 4:4	And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
	2Ki 4:5	So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons, who brought [the vessels] to her; and she poured out.
	2Ki 4:6	And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, [There is] not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
	2Ki 4:7	Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
	2Ki 4:42	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.
	2Ki 4:43	And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave [thereof].
	2Ki 4:44	So he set [it] before them, and they did eat, and left [thereof], according to the word of the LORD.

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Scott, Thomas. "Mark 8:8," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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