A large provisions HAMPER, big enough (Acts 9:25, not yet on these pages) to lower a grown man — Paul — over the wall at Damascus in. ⚠ Twelve small, specifically JEWISH hand-baskets (kophinos) are left over feeding five thousand in Jewish territory at Matthew 14:20; when a second feeding happens on Gentile-adjacent ground two chapters later, Matthew switches the word entirely to spyris — a larger hamper with no particular ethnic marking — and counts seven, not twelve (15:37). The vocabulary itself seems to be tracking who is being fed. → first discussed at Matt 15:37