Mateo 15:33

33 Y los discípulos le dijeron<***>: ¿Dónde conseguiríamos nosotros en el desierto tantos panes para saciar a una multitud tan grande?

Mateo 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.

Mateo 15:33 In-Context

31 de modo que la muchedumbre se maravilló al ver que los mudos hablaban, los lisiados quedaban restaurados, los cojos caminaban y los ciegos veían; y glorificaron al Dios de Israel.

32 Entonces Jesús, llamando junto a sí a sus discípulos, les dijo: Tengo compasión de la multitud, porque hace ya tres días que están conmigo y no tienen qué comer; y no quiero despedirlos sin comer, no sea que desfallezcan en el camino.

33 Y los discípulos le dijeron<***>: ¿Dónde conseguiríamos nosotros en el desierto tantos panes para saciar a una multitud tan grande?

34 Jesús entonces les dijo<***>: ¿Cuántos panes tenéis? Y ellos respondieron: Siete, y unos pocos pececillos.

35 Y El mandó a la multitud que se recostara en el suelo;