John 6:10
And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
KJV
εἶπεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς· ποιήσατε τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἀναπεσεῖν. ἦν δὲ χόρτος πολὺς ἐν τῷ τόπῳ. ἀνέπεσαν οὖν οἱ ἄνδρες τὸν ἀριθμὸν ὡς πεντακισχίλιοι.
Greek NT
Dixit ergo Jesus : Facite homines discumbere. Erat autem fœnum multum in loco. Discubuerunt ergo viri, numero quasi quinque millia.
Vulgate
Jesus said, Make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
ASV
Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now, there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- εἶπεν — SBLGNT
- εἶπεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + δὲ — Robinson-Pierpont
- ὡς — SBLGNT
- ὡς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ὡσεὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§549By freeing some individuals from the earthly evils of hunger, injustice, illness and death,274 Jesus performed messianic signs. Nevertheless he did not come to abolish all evils here below,275 but to free men from the gravest slavery, sin, which thwarts them in their vocation as God's sons and causes all forms of human bondage.276
1. Introduction to the Feeding of the Five Thousand. And when even had come His disciples came to Him, Matthew 14:15 that is, at the consummation of the age in regard to which we may fitly say what is found in the Epistle of John, It is the last hour. 1 John 2:18 They, not yet understanding what the Word was about to do, say to Him, The place is desert, Matthew 14:15 seeing the…
Cross-references
- Isa 44:8 — Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.
- Josh 6:12 — And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
- Luke 9:14 — For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
- Mark 6:39 — And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
- Mark 8:6 — And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.
- Mark 8:6 — And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.
- Matt 14:18 — He said, Bring them hither to me.
- Matt 15:35 — And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
- Matt 15:35 — And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.