John 6:9
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
KJV
ἔστιν παιδάριον ὧδε ὃς ἔχει πέντε ἄρτους κριθίνους καὶ δύο ὀψάρια· ἀλλὰ ταῦτα τί ἐστιν εἰς τοσούτους;
Greek NT
Est puer unus hic qui habet quinque panes hordeaceos et duos pisces : sed hæc quid sunt inter tantos ?
Vulgate
There is a lad here, who hath five barley loaves, and two fishes: but what are these among so many?
ASV
There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these among so many?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
δύο
duo
adjective · 132×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κρίθινος
krithinos
adjective · 2×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πέντε
pente
adjective · 38×
παιδάριον
paidarion
noun · 1×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
τοσοῦτος
tosoutos
demonstrative · 20×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἄρτος
artos
noun · 97×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ὀψάριον
opsarion
noun · 5×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×
ὧδε
ode
adverb · 60×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
notable
SBLGNT: παιδάριον | WH/Treg/NIV: παιδάριον | RP: + ἓν
- παιδάριον — SBLGNT
- παιδάριον — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + ἓν — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ὃς | WH/Treg/NIV: ὃς | RP: ὃ
- ὃς — SBLGNT
- ὃς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ὃ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Themes
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
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. He took therefore the five loaves, and the two fishes, and commanded the multitude, it is said, to sit down upon the grass, and looking up to Heaven, He blessed, and broke, and gave to His disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat and were filled, and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had eaten were about…
2. Since however they still spoke of the multitude merely, and the place, and the wilderness (for whence, it is said, should we have in a wilderness so many loaves, as to fill so great a multitude?); and not even so understood what He said, He proceeds to contribute His own part, and says unto them, How many loaves do you have? And they say, Seven, and a few little fishes. Matt…
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
- 1Kgs 4:28 — Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
- 2Cor 8:9 — For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
- 2Kgs 4:42 — And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that
- 2Kgs 4:42 — And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that
- 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.
- 2Kgs 7:1 — Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate
- 2Kgs 7:1 — Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate
- Deut 8:8 — A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
- Deut 8:8 — A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
- Deut 32:14 — Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
- Ezek 27:17 — Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
- John 6:7 — Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
- John 11:21 — Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
- John 11:32 — Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
- Luke 9:13 — But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
- Mark 6:38 — He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
- Mark 6:38 — He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
- Mark 8:19 — When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
- Matt 14:17 — And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
- Matt 16:9 — Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
- Matt 16:9 — Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
- Ps 78:19 — Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
- Ps 78:41 — Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
- Ps 81:16 — He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
- Ps 147:14 — He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
- Rev 6:6 — And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.