12 baskets
starts from 5 loaves & 2 fishes → feeds 5,000
12 baskets = 12 tribes
7 baskets
starts from 7 loaves & few fishes → feeds 4,000
7 baskets = 7 churches
Mark 8:19-20 → 12 vs. 7 baskets
baskets represent clean vessel?
- Isaiah 66 bringing clean vessel
Luke 9:16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
Strong’s
Loaves
loaves (G740)
ἄρτος ártos, ar’-tos; from G142; bread (as raised) or a loaf:—(shew-)bread, loaf.
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αἴρω aírō, ah’-ee-ro; a primary root; to lift up; by implication, to take up or away; figuratively, to raise (the voice), keep in suspense (the mind), specially, to sail away (i.e. weigh anchor); by Hebraism (compare H5375) to expiate sin:—away with, bear (up), carry, lift up, loose, make to doubt, put away, remove, take (away, up).
loaves (G740) = cleanse from sin
Bless
blessed (G2127)
εὐλογέω eulogéō, yoo-log-eh’-o; from a compound of G2095 and G3056; to speak well of, i.e. (religiously) to bless (thank or invoke a benediction upon, prosper):—bless, praise.
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εὖ eû, yoo; neuter of a primary εὖς eûs (good); (adverbially) well:—GOOD, well (done).
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λόγος lógos, log’-os; from G3004; something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a computation; specially, (with the article in John) the Divine Expression (i.e. Christ):—account, cause, communication, × concerning, doctrine, fame, × have to do, intent, matter, mouth, preaching, question, reason, + reckon, remove, say(-ing), shew, × speaker, speech, talk, thing, + none of these things move me, TIDINGS, treatise, utterance, word, work.
bless (G2127) = good tidings