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Matthew 14:21

Miracles and God's intervention

19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

20 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

22 And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away.

23 And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: and when the evening was come, he was there alone.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
About five thousand men were fed, in addition to women and children.
KJV
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
WEB
Those who ate were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.
ASV
And they that did eat were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
DARBY
But those that had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
BLB
And those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.
ÅB
Omkring fem tusen menn hadde spist, i tillegg til kvinner og barn.
OTB
De som spiste var omkring fem tusen menn, i tillegg til kvinner og barn.
B1930
Men de som hadde ett, var omkring fem tusen menn foruten kvinner og barn.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Philippians 4:19

    But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

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  • 2 Corinthians 9:8–11

    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:

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  • Acts 4:4

    Howbeit many of them which heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.

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  • John 6:10

    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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  • Acts 4:34

    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,

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