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John 6:9
There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many?
John 6:9 · Darby Bible
John 6:9 in other translations
There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”
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In context
6 But this he said trying him, for he knew what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not sufficient for them, that each may have some little [portion].
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, says to him,
9 There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many?
10 [And] Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place: the men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.
11 And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, distributed [them] to those that were set down; and in like manner of the small fishes as much as they would.
12 And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost.
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