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John 6:12

When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

KJV

ὡς δὲ ἐνεπλήσθησαν, λέγει τοῖς μαθηταῖς αὐτοῦ· συναγάγετε τὰ περισσεύσαντα κλάσματα, ἵνα μή τι ἀπόληται.

Greek NT

Ut autem impleti sunt, dixit discipulis suis : Colligite quæ superaverunt fragmenta, ne pereant.

Vulgate

And when they were filled, he saith unto his disciples, Gather up the broken pieces which remain over, that nothing be lost.

ASV

And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
κλάσμα
klasma
noun · 9×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
μαθητής
mathetes
noun · 261×
περισσεύω
perisseuo
verb · 39×
συνάγω
sunago
verb · 59×
τὶς
tis
indefinite_pronoun · 527×
ἀπόλλυμι
apollumi
verb · 90×
ἐμπίπλημι
empiplemi
verb · 5×
ἵνα
ina
conjunction · 665×
o
article · 19778×
ὡς
os
adverb · 502×

Miracle

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. Beloved, let us not contend with violent men, but learn when the doing so brings no hurt to our virtue to give place to their evil counsels; for so all their hardihood is checked. As darts when they fall upon a firm, hard, and resisting substance, rebound with great violence on those who throw them, but when the violence of the cast has nothing to oppose it, it soon becomes …

Cross-references

  • Luke 1:53 — He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
  • 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 16:21 — And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
  • Mark 6:42 — And they did all eat, and were filled.
  • Mark 6:42 — And they did all eat, and were filled.
  • Matt 15:37 — And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets full.
  • Neh 8:10 — Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of
  • Neh 9:25 — And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became
  • Ps 112:5 — A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
  • Ruth 2:18 — And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.