Matthieu 15:38

38 Or, ceux qui en avaient mangé étaient quatre mille hommes, sans compter les femmes et les petits enfants.

Matthieu 15:38 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 15:38

And they that did eat, were four thousand men
This number of men, as well as of the baskets of fragments, clearly shows this to be a distinct miracle from the former of this kind, recorded in ( Matthew 14:15-21 ) . There the number of men were five thousand, here four thousand; there the quantity of food was five loaves and two fishes, here seven loaves and a few fishes; there the number of the baskets of fragments was twelve, here seven; though the quantity might be as large; since the word here used for a basket is not the same as there, and designs one of a larger size:

besides women and children;
who were not taken into the account, though they ate as well as the men, and whose number might be very large.

Matthieu 15:38 In-Context

36 Et ayant pris les sept pains et les poissons, et ayant rendu grâces, il les rompit et les donna à ses disciples, et les disciples les donnèrent au peuple.

37 Et tous en mangèrent et furent rassasiés; et on emporta sept corbeilles pleines des morceaux qui restèrent.

38 Or, ceux qui en avaient mangé étaient quatre mille hommes, sans compter les femmes et les petits enfants.

39 Alors Jésus, ayant renvoyé le peuple, entra dans une barque, et il vint au territoire de Magdala.