(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
Ver. 8. To buy meat] For our Saviour lived not upon alms; but although he became poor to make us rich,2 Corinthians 8:9, yet had he a bag, and that so big as that it required a bearer, John 12:6, his friends and followers supplying him with money for his necessary uses and for relief of the poor.