Matteo 15:38

38 Or quelli che aveano mangiato erano quattromila persone, senza contare le 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 ed i pesci; e dopo aver rese grazie, li spezzò e diede ai discepoli, e i discepoli alle folle.

37 E tutti mangiarono e furon saziati; e de’ pezzi avanzati si levaron sette panieri pieni.

38 Or quelli che aveano mangiato erano quattromila persone, senza contare le donne e i fanciulli.

39 E, licenziate le turbe, Gesù entrò nella barca e venne al paese di Magadan.