Men (ανδρες). Men as different from women as in Mt 14:21. This remarkable miracle is recorded by all Four Gospels, a nature miracl…

Five thousand men.—St. Mark uses the word that excludes women and children.

Theophylact of Ohrid: The Lord, first placing before them what is most profitable—that is, the food of the word of God—afte…

There can be no question but that Mark understood the actions of Jesus to have been miraculous. Not only were all the people fed and their hunger s…

And they that ate of the loaves
And also of the fishes; for they all ate of both;

were about five…

Ministers should do or teach only what they are willing to have told to their Lord. Christ notices the fears of some and the labors of others among…