“Now those who ate were five thousand men. Because there are five senses of the outer human being, the five thousand men who followed the Lord signify those who, though still in a secular condition, know how to use well the external things they possess. They are rightly fed with five loaves, because such people must st…”
Bede, 8th c. — On the Gospel of Mark
Original
44And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.
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In context
42And they did all eat, and were filled.
43And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
— Mark 6:44 —
45And straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida, while he sent away the people.
46And when he had sent them away, he departed into a mountain to pray.