Charles Ellicott Commentary Matthew 16:5

"And the disciples came to the other side and forgot to take bread." — Matthew 16:5 (ASV)

They had forgotten —Better, they forgot. St. Mark, with his usual precision in detail, states that they had only “one loaf” with them. Either the suddenness of their Lord’s departure had deprived them of their customary forethought, or, perhaps, they were beginning to depend wrongly on the wonder-working power, as though it would be used, not as before to supply the needs of the famished multitude, but as making that forethought unnecessary for themselves.