9There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?
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And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat. …
And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)We have here an account of Christ’s feeding five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes, which miracle is in this respect remarkable, that it is the only passage of the actions of Christ’s life that is recorded by all the four evangelists. John, who does not usually relate what had been recorded by those who wrote before him, yet relates this, because of the reference the following discourse…
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