Mark 6:35 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 35-44. We meet with the relation of this miracle Matthew 14:15-21, and shall again meet with it 1 Thessalonians 6:1-14. John relates it with some more particular circumstances, telling us it was Philip that moved our Saviour to dismiss them so seasonably, that they might provide themselves food, and making Christ to propound the questions to Philip, where they should buy bread enough for them. He also tells us that it was Andrew who told our Saviour that there was a lad there had five barley loaves and two fishes. But all three of the evangelists agree in the main, both as to the quantity of victuals, five loaves and two fishes; and the quantity of the people fed with them, five thousand; and the number of the baskets full of fragments taken up, which was twelve. John also addeth the effect of this miracle upon the multitude, 1 Thessalonians 6:14; they said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. For further explication of this piece of history, See Poole on "Matthew 14:15", and following verses to Matthew 14:21. See Poole on "1 Thessalonians 6:5", and following verses to 1 Thessalonians 6:13.