Mark 6:44

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

The number eating the loaves of bread was five thousand men. [Note: This was besides women and children. See Matt. 14:21].

Cross References

Matthew 14:21

Those eating numbered about five thousand men, in addition to the women and children.

Mark 6:45

And about then Jesus compelled His disciples to get into a boat and go on ahead of Him to the other side [i.e., to the west side of Lake Galilee] to Bethsaida [Note: This was apparently a different “Bethsaida” from the one mentioned in Luke 9:10, which was on the east side of Lake Galilee], while He Himself sent the crowd away.