ESV Reformation Study Bible – Mark 6:44
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Mark 6:44

6:44 five thousand men. Mark does not use the Greek word that means “human being,” but a term distinguishing men from women, with perhaps the idea of “head of family” (Matt. 14:21 adds “besides women and children”). The crowd may have numbered between fifteen and twenty thousand.