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John 6:5-13
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

5 [a]When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip,(A) “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” 6 [b]He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages[c] worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little [bit].”(B) 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves[d] and two fish; but what good are these for so many?”(C) 10 Jesus said, “Have the people recline.” Now there was a great deal of grass[e] in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number.(D) 11 Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted.(E) 12 When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, “Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted.” 13 So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets[f] with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat.

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Footnotes

  1. 6:5 Jesus takes the initiative (in the synoptics, the disciples do), possibly pictured as (cf. Jn 6:14) the new Moses (cf. Nm 11:13).
  2. 6:6 Probably the evangelist’s comment; in this gospel Jesus is never portrayed as ignorant of anything.
  3. 6:7 Days’ wages: literally, “denarii”; a Roman denarius is a day’s wage in Mt 20:2.
  4. 6:9 Barley loaves: the food of the poor. There seems an allusion to the story of Elisha multiplying the barley bread in 2 Kgs 4:42–44.
  5. 6:10 Grass: implies springtime, and therefore Passover. Five thousand: so Mk 6:39, 44 and parallels.
  6. 6:13 Baskets: the word describes the typically Palestinian wicker basket, as in Mk 6:43 and parallels.
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