Bible verse
They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Luke 9:17 · BSB
The verses around it, from Luke 9.
13 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.”
14 (There were about five thousand men.) He told His disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
15 They did so, and everyone was seated.
16 Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, Jesus spoke a blessing and broke them. Then He gave them to the disciples to set before the people.
17 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
18 One day as Jesus was praying in private and the disciples were with Him, He questioned them: “Who do the crowds say I am?”
19 They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, that a prophet of old has arisen.”
20 “But what about you?” Jesus asked. “Who do you say I am?” Peter answered, “The Christ of God.”
21 Jesus strictly warned them not to tell this to anyone.
KJV
And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
ASV
And they ate, and were all filled: and there was taken up that which remained over to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets.
ERV
And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up that which remained over to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets.
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