Mateus 15:33

33 Disseram-lhe os discípulos: Donde nos viriam num deserto tantos pães, para fartar tamanha multidão?

Mateus 15:33 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 15:33

And his disciples said unto him
The former miracle of feeding five thousand men, besides women and children, with five loaves and two fishes, being quite out of their thoughts, they reply,

whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so
great a multitude?
The question is big with objections, and is put with some vehemency and astonishment: the people to be led were a multitude, a great multitude, a very great multitude, and these too had had but little, or no food, for a great while; and therefore would require the more to fill and satisfy them; and besides, it was a wilderness where they were, and where no provisions were to be had; and if they could have been got for money, they had not stock enough to purchase such a large number of loaves, as were necessary to feed so great a company with.

Mateus 15:33 In-Context

31 de modo que a multidão se admirou, vendo mudos a falar, aleijados a ficar sãos, coxos a andar, cegos a ver; e glorificaram ao Deus de Israel.

32 Jesus chamou os seus discípulos, e disse: Tenho compaixão da multidão, porque já faz três dias que eles estão comigo, e não têm o que comer; e não quero despedi-los em jejum, para que não desfaleçam no caminho.

33 Disseram-lhe os discípulos: Donde nos viriam num deserto tantos pães, para fartar tamanha multidão?

34 Perguntou-lhes Jesus: Quantos pães tendes? E responderam: Sete, e alguns peixinhos.

35 E tendo ele ordenado ao povo que se sentasse no chão,