Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate.

Now there were five thousand men who ate the bread.

Do you still not understand? Don’t you remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?

(Now about five thousand men were there.) Then he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of pieces did you pick up?” They replied, “Twelve.”

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.