Matthew 15:38
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New International Version (©2011)
The number of those who ate was four thousand men, besides women and children.

New Living Translation (©2007)
There were 4,000 men who were fed that day, in addition to all the women and children.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Now those who ate were 4,000 men, besides women and children.

International Standard Version (©2012)
Now those who had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.

NET Bible (©2006)
Not counting children and women, there were four thousand men who ate.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
But they who ate had been 4,000 men, apart from women and children.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Four thousand men had eaten. (This number does not include the women and children who had eaten.)

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And they that did eat were four thousand men, besides women and children.

American King James Version
And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.

American Standard Version
And they that did eat were four thousand men, besides women and children.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that did eat, were four thousand men, beside children and women.

Darby Bible Translation
but they that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

English Revised Version
And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.

Webster's Bible Translation
And they that had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.

Weymouth New Testament
Those who ate were 4,000 adult men, without reckoning women and children.

World English Bible
Those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

Young's Literal Translation
and those eating were four thousand men, apart from women and children.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

15:29-39 Whatever our case is, the only way to find ease and relief, is to lay it at Christ's feet, to submit it to him, and refer it to his disposal. Those who would have spiritual healing from Christ, must be ruled as he pleases. See what work sin has made; what various diseases human bodies are subject to. Here were such diseases as fancy could neither guess the cause nor the cure of, yet these were subject to the command of Christ. The spiritual cures that Christ works are wonderful. When blind souls are made to see by faith, the dumb to speak in prayer, the maimed and the lame to walk in holy obedience, it is to be wondered at. His power was also shown to the multitude, in the plentiful provision he made for them: the manner is much the same as before. All did eat, and were filled. Those whom Christ feeds, he fills. With Christ there is bread enough, and to spare; supplies of grace for more than seek it, and for those that seek for more. Christ sent away the people. Though he had fed them twice, they must not look for miracles to find their daily bread. Let them go home to their callings and their own tables. Lord, increase our faith, and pardon our unbelief, teaching us to live upon thy fulness and bounty, for all things pertaining to this life, and that which is to come.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 38. - The computation is made in the same way as in Matthew 14:21, the greatness of the miracle being thus enhanced.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And they that did eat, were four thousand men,.... This number of men, as well as of the baskets of fragments, clearly shows this to be a distinct miracle from the former of this kind, recorded in Matthew 14:15. There the number of men were five thousand, here four thousand; there the quantity of food was five loaves and two fishes, here seven loaves and a few fishes; there the number of the baskets of fragments was twelve, here seven; though the quantity might be as large; since the word here used for a basket is not the same as there, and designs one of a larger size:

besides women and children; who were not taken into the account, though they ate as well as the men, and whose number might be very large.

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The Feeding of the Four Thousand
…37And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full. 38And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children. 39And he sent away the multitude, and took ship, and came into the coasts of Magdala.

Matthew 15:37 They all ate and were satisfied. Afterward the disciples picked up seven basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Matthew 15:39 After Jesus had sent the crowd away, he got into the boat and went to the vicinity of Magadan.