And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
And they that ate the loaves were five thousand men.
And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.
And they that ate of the loaves, were about five thousand men.
Those who ate the loaves were five thousand men.
And they that ate the loaves were five thousand men.
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, Matthew 14:21, but it stands without any variation in Luke 9:14, and John 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.