John 6:11
And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.
KJV
ἔλαβεν οὖν τοὺς ἄρτους ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ εὐχαρίστησεν καὶ ἔδωκεν τοῖς ἀνακειμένοις, ὁμοίως καὶ ἐκ τῶν ὀψαρίων ὅσον ἤθελον.
Greek NT
Accepit ergo Jesus panes : et cum gratias egisset, distribuit discumbentibus : similiter et ex piscibus quantum volebant.
Vulgate
Jesus therefore took the loaves; and having given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down; likewise also of the fishes as much as they would.
ASV
And Jesus took the loaves: and when he had given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down. In like manner also of the fishes, as much as they would.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δίδωμι
didomi
verb · 414×
εὐχαριστέω
eucharisteo
verb · 38×
θέλω
thelo
verb · 208×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λαμβάνω
lambano
verb · 259×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
ἀνακεῖμαι
anakeimai
verb · 14×
ἄρτος
artos
noun · 97×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὀψάριον
opsarion
noun · 5×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὁμοίως
omoios
adverb · 31×
ὅσος
osos
correlative · 108×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: οὖν | WH/Treg/NIV: οὖν | RP: δὲ
- οὖν — SBLGNT
- οὖν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- δὲ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: διέδωκεν | WH/Treg/NIV: διέδωκεν | RP: + τοῖς μαθηταῖς οἱ δὲ μαθηταὶ
- διέδωκεν — SBLGNT
- διέδωκεν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + τοῖς μαθηταῖς οἱ δὲ μαθηταὶ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
6 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
Proofs in continuation, extracted from St. John's Gospel. The Gospels are four in number, neither more nor less. Mystic reasons for this. 1. John, the disciple of the Lord, preaches this faith, and seeks, by the proclamation of the Gospel, to remove that error which by Cerinthus had been disseminated among men, and a long time previously by those termed Nicolaitans, who are an …
We hold, further, that there are two energies in our Lord Jesus Christ. For He possesses on the one hand, as God and being of like essence with the Father, the divine energy, and, likewise, since He became man and of like essence to us, the energy proper to human nature. But observe that energy and capacity for energy, and the product of energy, and the agent of energy, are all…
Leo affirms that it is one and the same Person who acts in both natures. The same Christ who as a child grows in wisdom also as God feeds five thousand. The same one who sleeps in the boat commands the storm to cease. The unity of Person means that what belongs to either nature can be predicated of the one Christ.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 10:31 — Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
- 1Sam 9:13 — As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterw
- 1Sam 9:13 — As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat: for the people will not eat until he come, because he doth bless the sacrifice; and afterw
- 1Thess 5:18 — In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
- 1Tim 4:4 — For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
- 2Kgs 4:4 — And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.
- 2Kgs 4:43 — And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
- Acts 27:35 — And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.
- John 6:23 — (Howbeit there came other boats from Tiberias nigh unto the place where they did eat bread, after that the Lord had given thanks:)
- Luke 1:53 — He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
- Luke 9:16 — Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude.
- Luke 9:17 — And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
- Luke 24:30 — And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
- Luke 24:30 — And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
- Mark 6:41 — And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he am
- Mark 8:8 — So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.
- Matt 14:20 — And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
- Matt 15:36 — And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
- Matt 15:36 — And he took the seven loaves and the fishes, and gave thanks, and brake them, and gave to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
- Rom 14:6 — He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that e