Mark 6:44

44 erant autem qui manducaverunt quinque milia virorum

Mark 6:44 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 6:44

And they that did eat of the loaves
And also of the fishes; for they all ate of both;

were about five thousand men;
the word (wsei) , "about", is omitted in the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, Arabic, Persic and Ethiopic versions, reading five thousand men certain. The Evangelist Matthew adds, "beside children and women", ( Matthew 14:21 ) .

Mark 6:44 In-Context

42 et manducaverunt omnes et saturati sunt

43 et sustulerunt reliquias fragmentorum duodecim cofinos plenos et de piscibus

44 erant autem qui manducaverunt quinque milia virorum

45 et statim coegit discipulos suos ascendere navem ut praecederent eum trans fretum ad Bethsaidam dum ipse dimitteret populum

46 et cum dimisisset eos abiit in montem orare