King James Version (KJV)

Matthew 16:7

“And they reasoned among themselves, saying, [It is] because we have taken no bread.”

Verse in context — Matthew 16

And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

Then Jesus said unto them, ‹Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.›

And they reasoned among themselves, saying, [It is] because we have taken no bread.

[Which] when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, ‹O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?›

‹Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?›

Jesus as the promised Messiah, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.