21And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
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But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work: …
Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-21)This passage of story, concerning Christ’s feeding five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes , is recorded by all the four Evangelists, which very few, if any, of Christ’s miracles are: this intimates that there is something in it worthy of special remark. Observe, I. The great resort of people to Christ, when he was retired into a desert place , Matt. 14:13. He withdrew into privacy when…
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