Mateus 14:21

21 Ora, os que comeram foram cerca de cinco mil homens, além de mulheres e crianças.

Mateus 14:21 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 14:21

And they that had eaten were about five thousand men,
&c.] The word "about", is omitted in the Vulgate Latin, in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, and in the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions, which expressly say there were so many. A large number indeed, to be fed with five loaves and two fishes!

besides women and children;
who were not taken into the account, though they all ate, and were filled, it not being usual with the Jews to number their women; and who might be near as large a number as the men: for generally there is a very great concourse of the female sex, and of children, where anything extraordinary, or out of the way, is to be seen or heard; and of this sort was a large number of Christ's audience, who only came out of curiosity, or for one sinister end or another.

Mateus 14:21 In-Context

19 Tendo mandado �s multidões que se reclinassem sobre a relva, tomou os cinco pães e os dois peixes e, erguendo os olhos ao céu, os abençoou; e partindo os pães, deu-os aos discípulos, e os discípulos �s multidões.

20 Todos comeram e se fartaram; e dos pedaços que sobejaram levantaram doze cestos cheios.

21 Ora, os que comeram foram cerca de cinco mil homens, além de mulheres e crianças.

22 Logo em seguida obrigou os seus discípulos a entrar no barco, e passar adiante dele para o outro lado, enquanto ele despedia as multidões.

23 Tendo-as despedido, subiu ao monte para orar � parte. Ao anoitecer, estava ali sozinho.