2 Kings 4:43
Good News Translation
but he answered, "Do you think this is enough for a hundred men?" Elisha replied, "Give it to them to eat, because the LORD says that they will eat and still have some left over."

New Revised Standard Version
But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred people?” So he repeated, “Give it to the people and let them eat, for thus says the LORD, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’”

Contemporary English Version
"There's not enough here for 100 people," his servant said. "Just give it to them," Elisha replied. "The LORD has promised there will be more than enough."

New American Bible
But his servant objected, “How can I set this before a hundred?” Elisha again said, “Give it to the people to eat, for thus says the LORD: You will eat and have some left over.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.

his servitor

2 Kings 4:12 And he said to Giezi, his servant: Call this Sunamitess. And when he had called her, and she stood before him,

What

Matthew 14:16,17 But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them to eat. . . .

Matthew 15:33,34 And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude? . . .

Mark 6:37-39 And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat. . . .

Mark 8:4 And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness?

Luke 9:13 But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps, we should go and buy food for all this multitude.

John 6:9 There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these among so many?

They shall eat

Matthew 14:20 And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up what remained, twelve full baskets of fragments.

Matthew 15:37 And they did all eat, and had their fill. And they took up seven baskets full, of what remained of the fragments.

Matthew 16:8-10 And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O ye of little faith, for that you have no bread? . . .

Mark 6:42,43 And they all did eat, and had their fill. . . .

Mark 8:20 When also the seven loaves among four thousand, how many baskets of fragments took you up? And they say to him: Seven.

Luke 9:17 And they did all eat and were filled. And there were taken up of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets.

John 6:11-13 And Jesus took the loaves: and when he had given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down. In like manner also of the fishes, as much as they would. . . .

Context
Feeding a Hundred Men
42And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of God, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat. 43And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.44So he set it before them: and they ate, and there was left, according to the word of the Lord.…
Cross References
Luke 9:13
But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps, we should go and buy food for all this multitude.

John 6:9
There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these among so many?

2 Kings 4:42
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