Mateo 15:38

38 Aquel día, cuatro mil hombres recibieron alimento, además de las mujeres y los niños.

Mateo 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.

Mateo 15:38 In-Context

36 Tomó luego los siete panes y los pescados, dio gracias a Dios por ellos y los partió en trozos. Se los dio a los discípulos, quienes repartieron la comida entre la multitud.

37 Todos comieron cuanto quisieron. Después los discípulos recogieron siete canastas grandes con la comida que sobró.

38 Aquel día, cuatro mil hombres recibieron alimento, además de las mujeres y los niños.

39 Entonces Jesús envió a todos a sus casas, subió a una barca y cruzó a la región de Magadán.