πεντακισχίλιοι, 5000 men, not counting women and children. This helps us to attach some definite meaning to the elastic words, ὄχλος, ὄχλοι, so frequently occurring in the Gospels. Doubtless this was an exceptionally great gathering, yet the inference seems legitimate that ὄχλος meant hundreds, and πολὺς ὄχλος thousands.
A full narrative of the feeding the five thousand is given in each of the other evangelists: in Mark 6:32; in Luke 9:10; in John 6:1....
2. JOHN'S MARTYRDOM. The Fourfold Attitude of the Rejected King. CHAPTER 14 1. John's Martyrdom. (Matthew 14:1 .) 2. The Disciples of John with the Lord Jesus. (Matthew 14:12 .) 3. Feeding the Five...
THE FEEDING OF THE MULTITUDE (Mark 6:35 *, Luke 9:10). The account is somewhat shorter than in Mk. Having already (Matthew 9:36) spoken of Jesus-' compassion for people who were as sheep not having a...
When Jesus heard the news (of the death of John), he withdrew from there in a boat, into a deserted place alone. When the crowds heard of it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he had dise...
THE TRAGIC DRAMA OF JOHN THE BAPTIST (Matthew 14:1-12)...
MEN. males. Greek plural of _aner_. See App-123....
Jesus retires to a Desert Place, where He feeds Five Thousand Mark 6:31-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:5-14 This is the only miracle narrated by all the Evangelists. In St John it prepares the way for the...
JESUS RETIRES TO A DESERT PLACE, WHERE HE FEEDS FIVE THOUSAND Mark 6:31-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:5-14. This is the only miracle narrated by all the Evangelists. In St John it prepares the way for the...
Ver 15. And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, "This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves v...
_PEOPLE WERE HUNGRY AND JESUS CARED MATTHEW 14:13-21:_ "When Jesus heard of it" He went to a "deserted place by Himself." (Matthew 14:13) It is not clear whether Matthew intended us to understand that...
ΈΣΘΊΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. masc._ nom.pl., _см._ Matthew 14:20. ΉΣΑΝ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть, ΏΣΕ (G5616) около (с числительными), ΧΩΡΊΣ (G5565) без; здесь: помимо (DA)....
Section 34 JESUS FEEDS THE 5000 AND WALKS UPON THE WAVES (Parallels: Mark 6:30-52; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-21) TEXT: 14:13-33 13 Now when Jesus heard _it,_ he withdrew from thence in a boat, to a des...
And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus. For the exposition of this section-one of the very few where all the four Evangelists run parallel-see the note...
37 The history of the kingdom proclamation in Acts and what is predicted the circumcision epistles and the Unveiling fully bears out our Lord's forecast. There were the seven sons of Sceva (Act_19:15)...
3 See Lev_18:1620:21. 6-12 Compare Mar_6:21-29. 13-15 Compare Mar_6:30-36; Luk_9:10-12 Joh_6:1-7. 13 Herod's insistence that the Lord was John the baptist was not very reassuring, for He was almost...
FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND (Mark 6:30; Luke 9:10; John 6:1). The only miracle recorded by the four evangelists, and also one of the most wonderful. It cannot be accounted for, as some of the miracles o...
DEATH OF THE BAPTIST. FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND. WALKING ON THE SEA 1, 2. Herod's opinion of Jesus (Mark 6:14; Luke 9:7)....
MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 14 JOHN THE *BAPTIST DIES 14:1-12 V1 At that time, the ruler called Herod heard reports about Jesus. V2 So he spoke to his servants....
BESIDE WOMEN AND CHILDREN. — St. Matthew is the only Evangelist who mentions their presence, but all the four use the word which emphasises the fact that all the five thousand were _men._ As the crowd...
CHAPTER 12 The Crisis in Galilee Matthew 14:1 - Matthew 15:1 - Matthew 16:1. THE lives of John and of Jesus, lived so far apart, and with so little intercommunication, have yet been interwoven in a...
ABUNDANCE FOR THE HUNGRY Matthew 14:13-21 Jesus sighed for a little quiet and sought it amid the lonely hills across the lake. The crowds saw where His boat was making for, and hurried round the sho...
The presence and activity of the true King filled the false ruler with alarm. Herod sacrificed John to his lust. Once Herod had heard John, and the remembrance of former conviction was still with him,...
CHAPTER 32 FEEDING THE MULTITUDES Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:32-44; Luke 9:10-17; & John 6:1-14. Mark: “And they de
"When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. (14) And Jesus went forth, and saw a...
Chapter 8, which opens the portion that comes before us tonight, is a striking illustration as well as proof of the method which God has been pleased to employ in giving us the apostle Matthew's accou...
_THE FEEDING OF THE FIVE THOUSAND_ ‘They that had eaten were about five thousand.’ Matthew 14:21 Of all the miracles worked by our Lord, not one is so often mentioned in the New Testament as this....
Our Gospel resumes the historical course of these revelations, but in such a manner as to exhibit the spirit by which the people were animated. Herod (loving his earthly power and his own glory more t...
AND THEY THAT HAD EATEN WERE ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND MEN,.... The word "about", is omitted in the Vulgate Latin, in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, and in the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions, which expressly...
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. Ver. 21. _Were about five thousand_] Pythias is famous for that he was able, at his own charge, to entertain Xerxes' w...
He _commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass_ Mark says, _by companies_, as we render the phrase συμποσια, συμποσια, which is literally, _companies, companies_, that is, _in separate companies...
AND THEY THAT HAD EATEN WERE ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND MEN, BESIDE WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Matthew has only a very brief account of the events leading up to the miracle. The other evangelists bring out the dram...
The miracle:...
Now authority in high places is seen to reject Him too, by the deliberate rejection of His forerunner and servant John the Baptist. When King Herod hears of His fame, his conscience is troubled, feari...
13-21 When Christ and his word withdraw, it is best for us to follow, seeking the means of grace for our souls before any worldly advantages. The presence of Christ and his gospel, makes a desert not...
Ver. 17-21. In the relation of this story by the other evangelists there is no difference in what is material; the others relate some circumstances more, as that they sat down on the grass, and _by fi...
Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XI "[18]...
Matthew 14:21 G1161 eaten G2068 (G5723) were G2258 (G5713) about G5616 thousand G4000 men G435 besides...
‘And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.' Finally we are supplied with an enumeration of the crowds, or rather, of those ‘who ate'. There were five thousand men, be...
JESUS PROVIDES A MESSIANIC FELLOWSHIP MEAL IN THE WILDERNESS FOR HIS SYMBOLIC NEW COMMUNITY (14:13-21). Jesus, having been rejected by His home country and by the powers that be, has compassion on tho...
The feeding of the Five Thousand is the only miracle mentioned by all four Evangelists, and the first occurrence fully narrated by them all. It also furnishes a definite chronological point for a harm...
Matthew 14:21. FIVE THOUSAND MEN. All the Evangelists mention the number of men. Matthew alone adds: BESIDES WOMEN AND CHILDREN. The latter classes were probably not numerous, and would be fed apart f...
BESIDE WOMEN AND CHILDREN (χωρις γυναικων κα παιδιων). Perhaps on this occasion there were not so many as usual because of the rush of the crowd around the head of the lake. Matthew adds this item...
Matthew 14:15 Jesus and His Bounty. I. The problem of the disciples. The desert place, the night, and the multitude without food, presented a problem that might well constitute reason for anxiety to...
Matthew 14:14. _And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick._ Different persons take different views of multitudes, according...
Matthew 14:13. _When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by a ship into a desert place apart:_ It is well for us to get alone with God when he takes home the best and most faithful of his servants....
CONTENTS: Herod's troubled conscience and the murder of John the Baptist. The 5000 fed. Jesus walks on the water. CHARACTERS: Jesus, John the Baptist, Herod, Herodias, and her daughter, disciples. CO...
Matthew 14:2. _This is John the baptist: he is risen from the dead._ Mark indicates that Herod was a sadducee by those words of Christ, Beware of the leaven of the sadducees beware of the leaven of He...
THE NUMBER OF MEN. Five thousand men _plus_ women and children. A large crowd. There was one loaf to each thousand men. It is a Divine principle, that they more they give to the hungry, the more they...
_They need not depart; give ye them to eat._ CHRIST FEEDING THE MULTITUDE The miracles of Jesus were: (1) public; (2) beneficent. I. The nature and circumstances of the miracle. 1. When was it w...
MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 14:15 These verses record Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000, the only miracle from Jesus’ earthly ministry recorded in all four Gospels (compare Mark 6:32;...
Jesus feeds five thousand Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-15;...
CHAPTER 14 The first eleven verses of this chapter relate to the decollation of John the Baptist, of which I have spoken at length on the sixth chapter of S. Mark. _His Body_ : Syriac, _sclado_, i.e....
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 14:13. HE DEPARTED THENCE.—Matthew traces the withdrawal from Capernaum to the eastern side of the lake to the news of John Baptist’s martyrdom. Luke tells us that Herod desir...
EXPOSITION MATTHEW 14:1 CHRIST'S POWER TO SUPPLY AND PROTECT AND HEAL, PREFACED BY A STATEMENT OF HEROD'S RELATION T
And at that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus. And he said to his servants, This is John the Baptist; he's risen from the dead; and therefore mighty works do show forth themselves in...
2 Corinthians 9:8; Acts 4:34; Acts 4:4; John 6:10; Philippians 4:19...