Mǎtaìfúyīn 15:38

38 Chī de rén , chúle fùnǚ háizi , gòng yǒu sì qiā .

Mǎtaìfúyīn 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.

Mǎtaìfúyīn 15:38 In-Context

36 Ná zhe zhè qī ge bǐng hé jǐ tiaó yú , zhù xiè le , bāi kāi , dìgĕi méntǔ . méntǔ yòu dìgĕi zhòngrén .

37 Zhòngrén dōu chī bìngqiĕ chī bǎo le . shōushi shèngxia de língsuì , zhuāng mǎn le qī ge kuāngzi .

38 Chī de rén , chúle fùnǚ háizi , gòng yǒu sì qiā .

39 Yēsū jiào zhòngrén sàn qù , jiù shàng chuán , lái dào Mǎjiādān de jìngjiè .