Teks -- Mark 6:44 (NET)

6:44 Now there were five thousand men who ate the bread.

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Robertson: Mar 6:44 - Men

Men ( andres ).

Men as different from women as in Mat 14:21. This remarkable miracle is recorded by all Four Gospels, a nature miracle that only God can work. No talk about accelerating natural processes will explain this miracle. And three eyewitnesses report it: the Logia of Matthew, the eyes of Peter in Mark, the witness of John the Beloved Disciple (Gould). The evidence is overwhelming.

Vincent: Mar 6:44 - Men

Men ( ἄνδρες )

Not generic, including men and women; but literally men. Compare Mat 14:21, beside women and children; a detail which we should have expected from Mark.

JFB: Mar 6:44 - And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men

"besides women and children" (Mat 14:21). Of these, however, there would probably not be many; as only the males were obliged to go to the approaching festival.

Jesus Recrosses to the Western side of the Lake Walking on the Sea (Mar 6:45-56).

One very important particular given by John alone (Joh 6:15) introduces this portion: "When Jesus therefore perceived that they would take Him by force, to make Him a king, He departed again into a mountain Himself alone."

Clarke: Mar 6:44 - Were about five thousand

Were about five thousand - ὡσει, about, is omitted by a great majority of the best MSS. and by the principal versions. It is wanting in several editions: Bengel, Wetstein, and Griesbach, leave it out of the text. It is omitted by some in the parallel place, Mat 14:21, but it stands without any variation in Luk 9:14, and Joh 6:10. This miracle is mentioned by all the four evangelists. It is one of the most astonishing that Christ has wrought. It is a miracle which could not be counterfeited, and a full proof of the divinity of Christ.

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Poole: Mar 6:35-44 - See Poole on "Mat 14:15"

Ver. 35-44. We meet with the relation of this miracle Mat 14:15-21 , and shall again meet with it Joh 6:1-14 . John relates it with some more particular circumstances, telling us it was Philip that moved our Saviour to dismiss them so seasonably, that they might provide themselves food, and making Christ to propound the questions to Philip, where they should buy bread enough for them. He also tells us that it was Andrew who told our Saviour that there was a lad there had five barley loaves and two fishes. But all three of the evangelists agree in the main, both as to the quantity of victuals, five loaves and two fishes; and the quantity of the people fed with them, five thousand; and the number of the baskets full of fragments taken up, which was twelve. John also addeth the effect of this miracle upon the multitude, Joh 6:14 ; they said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. For further explication of this piece of history,

See Poole on "Mat 14:15" , and following verses to Mat 14:21 . See Poole on "Joh 6:5" , and following verses to Joh 6:13 .

Gill: Mar 6:44 - And they that did eat of the loaves // were about five thousand men

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 ωσει, "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", Mat 14:21.