But many of them who heard the word believed; and the number of the men was about five thousand.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Five thousand. Not that hereby is meant the whole number of the believers, but five thousand, by this miracle and preaching, were added to those that believed before. (Witham)
Here again we remark the visible increase of the Catholic Church, by the preaching of the word.
