Matteo 15:38

38 Or coloro che avean mangiato erano quattromila uomini, oltre alle donne e i fanciulli.

Matteo 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.

Matteo 15:38 In-Context

36 Poi prese i sette pani, e i pesci, e rese grazie, li ruppe, e li diede a’ suoi discepoli; e i discepoli alla moltitudine.

37 E tutti ne mangiarono, e furon saziati; poi levaron l’avanzo de’ pezzi, e ve ne furono sette panieri pieni.

38 Or coloro che avean mangiato erano quattromila uomini, oltre alle donne e i fanciulli.

39 Poi, licenziate le turbe, egli montò nella navicella, e venne ne’ confini di Magdala.