πόθεν, whence? This adverb was used by the Greeks, in speaking of food, in reference to the source of supply πόθεν φάγητε = “unde cibum petituri sitis”. Examples in Kypke, Raphel, Palairet. ἐπʼ ἐρημίας, in a desert. The scene of the first feeding is a desert place also (chap. Mark 6:32). But in that case food was purchasable within a reasonable distance; not so here.

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Old Testament