What Does Matthew 16:9 Mean in the King James?
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The baskets they gathered are evidence that the shortage was never the whole story.
THE MEANING
When present need fills your attention, earlier provision can slip from view. The verse links understanding with remembering: what the disciples gathered still helps them see the need in front of them. The question reaches you whenever lack makes what you have already seen hard to recall.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A current shortage erases the meaning of provision you have already received.
THE ROOT
μνημονεύετε
mnēmoneuete
GROWS FROM
μνη-
mnē-
memory; mindful recollection
Matthew pairs remembering (μνημονεύετε, mnēmoneuete, “remember”) with perceiving (νοεῖτε, noeite, “understand”), making recollection part of seeing the present clearly. The baskets are what the disciples physically gathered, so memory here has something concrete to return to.
ALSO GROWS
mnēmē: memory, remembrance
μνήμη
This branch shows remembering as bringing what happened back into present awareness.
mnēmosynon: memorial, reminder
μνημόσυνον
The same memory-root can name something that keeps an event present; the gathered baskets serve as such a reminder.
νοεῖτε
noeite
GROWS FROM
νοέω (noeō), related to νοῦς (nous)
to perceive or consider with the mind
“understand” in this verse is noeite. The Greek verb carries the sense of mental perception: the question is whether the disciples can see what the bread event means for the need before them. Paired with “remember,” it suggests that forgetting is more than losing a fact; it clouds perception.
ALSO GROWS
nous: mind, perception
νοῦς
This related word places understanding in the faculty that perceives and considers.
noēma: thought, intention
νόημα
This branch shows the same word-family reaching into what the mind forms or perceives.
THE PATTERN
Remembering provision lets present need be seen in the light of what has already been gathered.
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.THE THREAD
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.The opening verb uses the same Greek verb, μνημονεύω (mnēmoneuō, “remember”), as Matthew 16:9. In both verses, remembering brings what has been received back into the present, where it can shape how the next moment is seen.
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