“When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.”
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up? Twelve, they replied — the memory test: Jesus walks the disciples back through the first feeding, asking the specific numbers. Twelve basketfuls for five thousand people — the disciples remember the number correctly. The memory of the data point without the comprehension of what it means is precisely the disciples' condition: they have the information but not the understanding.
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