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Podcast: BIBLE IN TEN
Episode: Matthew 15:38
Description: Friday, 16 January 2026
Now those who ate were four thousand men, besides women and children. Matthew 15:38
“And those eating, they were four thousand men, besides women and children” (CG).
In the previous verse, the multitudes ate, and yet, after the meal, the disciples took up seven hampers full of leftovers. With that stated, Matthew next reveals the size of the crowd, saying, “And those eating, they were four thousand men.”
It is a new word, tetrakischilioi, four thousand. It is derived from tessares, four, and chilioi, a thousand...