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Mark 8:8

Mark 8:8

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

and were: This was another incontestable miracle - four thousand men, besides women and children (Matthew 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. Mark 8:19-20; Psalms 107:8-9, Psalms 145:16; Matthew 16:10; Luke 1:53; John 6:11-13, John 6:27, John 6:32-35, John 6:47-58; Revelation 7:16-17

they took: 1 Kings 17:14-16; 2 Kings 4:2-7, 2 Kings 4:42-44

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