χόρτος πολύς. As we might expect early in April (John 6:4). S. Mark (Mark 6:39-40) mentions how they reclined in parterres (πρασιαὶ πρασιαί), by hundreds and by fifties, on the green grass. This arrangement would make it easy to count them.

οἱ ἄνδρες. The men, as distinct from the women and children, who would not be very numerous: τοὺς�, the people, includes all three. S. Matthew (Matthew 14:21) says that the 5000 included the men only. Τὸν�, accusative of closer definition; Winer, p. 288.

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