Matthew Chapter 14 verse 21 Holy Bible
And they that did eat were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
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And those who had food were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.
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But those that had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
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And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
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Those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
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and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 21. - And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. Only Matthew mentions the presence of other than men. We may assume that no great number of women and children were there; and this, considering the distance that most had been obliged to go (ver. 13), is what we should expect. "Observe here the diminutive παιδίων, little children, whom their mothers either carried in their arms or led by the hand" (Meyer).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(21) Beside women and children.--St. Matthew is the only Evangelist who mentions their presence, but all the four use the word which emphasises the fact that all the five thousand were men. As the crowd had come in many cases from considerable distances, the women and children were probably few in number, were grouped together by themselves, and were not counted, so that the round number dwelt in men's minds without reference to them.
