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How many were fed?

Mark: “And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men” ([vi, 44]).

Matthew: “And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children” ([xiv, 21]).

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Where did this miracle occur?

Luke: “In a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida” ([ix, 10]).

Mark says that after the miracle “He constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go to the other side before unto Bethsaida” ([vi, 45]).