SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:44
Y los que comieron eran cinco mil hombres.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Mark 6:44
Verse 44. Were about five thousand] wsei, 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, Matt. xiv. 21, but it stands without any variation in Luke ix. 14, and John vi. 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 44. And they that did eat of the loaves , etc..] 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).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 30-44 - Let not ministers do any thing or teach any thing, but what they ar willing should be told to their Lord. Christ notices the frights of some, and the toils of others of his disciples, and provides rest for those that are tired, and refuge for those that are terrified. The people sought the spiritual food of Christ's word, and then he too care that they should not want bodily food. If Christ and his disciple put up with mean things, surely we may. And this miracle shows tha Christ came into the world, not only to restore, but to preserve an nourish spiritual life; in him there is enough for all that come. Non are sent empty away from Christ but those who come to him full of themselves. Though Christ had bread enough at command, he teaches u not to waste any of God's bounties, remembering how many are in want We may, some time, need the fragments that we now throw away.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ ησαν 2258 5713 V-IXI-3P οι 3588 T-NPM φαγοντες 5315 5631 V-2AAP-NPM τους 3588 T-APM αρτους 740 N-APM ωσει 5616 ADV πεντακισχιλιοι 4000 A-NPM ανδρες 435 N-NPM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
44. Men (andrev). Not generic, including men and women, but literally men. Compare Matt. xiv. 21, beside women and children; a detail which we should have expected from Mark.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
6:44 {Men} (andres). Men as different from women as in #Mt 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.
