Mattheüs 15:38

38 En die daar gegeten hadden, waren vier duizend mannen, zonder de vrouwen en kinderen.

Mattheüs 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.

Mattheüs 15:38 In-Context

36 En Hij nam de zeven broden en de vissen, en als Hij gedankt had, brak Hij ze, en gaf ze Zijn discipelen; en de discipelen gaven ze aan de schare.

37 En zij aten allen en werden verzadigd, en zij namen op, het overschot der brokken, zeven volle manden.

38 En die daar gegeten hadden, waren vier duizend mannen, zonder de vrouwen en kinderen.

39 En de scharen van Zich gelaten hebbende, ging Hij in het schip, en kwam in de landpalen van Magdala.