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They all ate and were satisfied, Mark 6:42 · Berean Standard Bible
Everyone ate, and everyone was full. Not just a snack — they were completely satisfied. All five thousand of them.
From five loaves and two fish to total satisfaction for thousands. That's what happens when you put your little into Jesus' hands.
Mark records the result of the miraculous feeding.
Full. Satisfied. Every single person. When Jesus provides, he doesn't do it halfway. He gives abundantly, generously, and completely.
The statement 'they all ate and were satisfied' (ephagon pantes kai echortasthesan) uses chortazo — a word meaning 'fed to satisfaction/fullness' — indicating complete satiation, not mere survival rations.
The universal satisfaction ('all') of five thousand people from five loaves recalls the manna provision (Exod 16:18) where everyone gathered enough. Chortazo also echoes Psalm 132:15's promise of bread for Zion.
Mark states the result of the miraculous feeding.
Every single person ate until completely full — not a rationed portion, but genuine satisfaction. The God who fed Israel with manna now feeds five thousand through his Son.
40So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.
41Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, Jesus spoke a blessing and broke the loaves. Then He gave them to His disciples to set before the people. And He divided the two fish among them all.
42They all ate and were satisfied,
43and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish.
44And there were five thousand men who had eaten the loaves.
Read all of Mark 6 — His hometown dismisses him, a king beheads his cousin, and the crowds won't stop coming. Jesus feeds five thousand anyway.
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