And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
Ver. 20. And were filled] So David's cup overflowed, Psalms 23:5; he had not only a sufficience but an affluence. So, at the marriage of Cana, Christ gave them wine enough for 150 guests, John 2:10. Howbeit he hath not promised us superfluities. Having food and raiment, let us be content, 1 Timothy 6:8. A little of the creature will serve to carry us through our pilgrimage.
And they took up of the fragments] Thrift is a great revenue (ingens vectigal parsimonia), and good husbandry well pleasing to God, Proverbs 27:26,27, so it degenerate not into niggardise.
Twelve baskets full] If we consider what they are, we may wonder they left anything, as if, what they left, that they ate anything.