10 Jesus said, “Make the people recline.” (Now there was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men reclined, approximately five thousand in number. 11 Then Jesus took the bread, and after he[a] had given thanks, he distributed it[b] to those who were reclining—likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 And when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, “Gather the remaining fragments so that nothing is lost.”

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Footnotes

  1. John 6:11 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had given thanks”) which is understood as temporal
  2. John 6:11 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation