Skip to Content
Commentary Library

Commentaries on Luke 9:17

Read verse in KJV Bible Reader

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

And they did eat, and were all filled,.... Every one had a part, and enough: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets; [See comments on Matthew 14:20].

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

In this chapter we have, I. The commission Christ gave to his twelve apostles to go out for some time to preach the gospel, and confirm it by miracles, ver. 1-6. II. Herod's terror at the growing greatness of our Lord Jesus, ver. 7-9. III. The apostles' return to Christ, his retirement with them into a place of solitude, the great resort of people to them notwithstanding, and his feeding five...