Matthew 15:34
And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
KJV
καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, πόσους ἄρτους ἔχετε; οἱ δὲ εἶπον· ἑπτά, καὶ ὀλίγα ἰχθύδια.
Greek NT
Et ait illis Jesus : Quot habetis panes ? At illi dixerunt : Septem, et paucos pisciculos.
Vulgate
And Jesus said unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.
ASV
And Jesus said to them: How many loaves have you? But they said: Seven, and a few little fishes.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
πόσος
posos
correlative_pronoun · 27×
ἄρτος
artos
noun · 97×
ἑπτά
epta
adjective · 88×
ἔχω
echo
verb · 707×
ἰχθύδιον
ichthudion
noun · 2×
Ἰησοῦς
iesous
noun · 908×
ὀλίγος
oligos
adjective · 41×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§1335The miracles of the multiplication of the loaves, when the Lord says the blessing, breaks and distributes the loaves through his disciples to feed the multitude, prefigure the superabundance of this unique bread of his Eucharist.156 The sign of water turned into wine at Cana already announces the Hour of Jesus' glorification. It makes manifest the fulfillment of the wedding fea…
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…
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 4:2 — And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.
- John 21:9 — As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
- Luke 24:41 — And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
- 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 8:5 — And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.
- Mark 8:20 — And when the seven among four thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? And they said, Seven.
- 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 16:10 — Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?