{Beside women and children} (ch(9372)is gunaik(936e) kai
paidi(936e)). Perhaps on this occasion there were not so many as
usual because of the rush of the crowd around the head of the
lake. Matthew adds this item and does not mean that the women and
children were not fed, but simply that "the eaters" (hoi
esthiontes) included five thousand men (andres) besides the
women and children.