Matteo 15:33

33 E i suoi discepoli gli dissero: Onde avremmo in un luogo deserto tanti pani, che bastassero a saziare una cotanta moltitudine?

Matteo 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.

Matteo 15:33 In-Context

31 talchè le turbe si maravigliavano, vedendo i mutoli parlare, i monchi esser sani, gli zoppi camminare, e i ciechi vedere; e glorificarono l’Iddio d’Israele.

32 E Gesù, chiamati a sè i suoi discepoli, disse: Io ho gran pietà della moltitudine; perciocchè già tre giorni continui dimora appresso di me, e non ha di che mangiare; e pure io non voglio licenziarli digiuni, che talora non vengano meno tra via.

33 E i suoi discepoli gli dissero: Onde avremmo in un luogo deserto tanti pani, che bastassero a saziare una cotanta moltitudine?

34 E Gesù disse loro: Quanti pani avete? Ed essi dissero: Sette, e alcuni pochi pesciolini.

35 Ed egli comandò alle turbe che si mettessero a sedere in terra.