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Luke 9:16
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14 For there were about five thousand men. Then He said to His disciples, “Make them sit down in groups of fifty.”
15 And they did so, and made them all sit down.
16 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He ablessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.  
17 So they all ate and were1 filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.  

Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ

18 aAnd it happened, as He was alone praying, that His disciples joined Him, and He asked them, saying, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”  
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Luke 9:16

The five ... the two (touv pente ... touv duo). Pointing back to verse Luke 9:13, fine example of the Greek article.

And gave (kai edidou). Imperfect active of didwmi, kept on giving. This picturesque imperfect is preceded by the aorist kateklasen (brake), a single act. This latter verb in the N.T. only here and the parallel in Mark 6:41, though common enough in ancient Greek. We say "break off" where here the Greek has "break down" (or thoroughly), perfective use of kata.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 9:16:

Matthew 13:24
Luke 11:6
John 6:1
John 6:11

 

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