17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

• Feeding the Four Thousand

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• 1Cor 10:30 — For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?
• 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
• 1Tim 4:3 — Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
• Col 3:17 — And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
• John 2:5 — His mother saith unto the servants, Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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 9:14 — For they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them sit down by fifties in a company.
• 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.
• Luke 12:37 — Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve 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.
• 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 6:39 — And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
• 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
• Matt 14:18 — He said, Bring them hither to me.
• Matt 14:19 — And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the di
• Matt 15:35 — And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground.
• Matt 26:26 — And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body.
• Ps 132:15 — I will abundantly bless her provision: I will satisfy her poor with bread.
• 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