John 6:9
Good News Translation
"There is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough for all these people."

New Revised Standard Version
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?”

Contemporary English Version
"There is a boy here who has five small loaves of barley bread and two fish. But what good is that with all these people?"

New American Bible
“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these among so many?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

which.

Matthew 14:17 They answered him: We have not here, but five loaves, and two fishes.

Matthew 16:9 Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?

Mark 6:38 And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.

Mark 8:19 When I broke the five loves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took you up? They say to him: Twelve.

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.

barley.

Deuteronomy 8:8 A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.

Deuteronomy 32:14 Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

1 Kings 4:28 They brought barley also, and straw for the horses and beasts, to the place where the king was, according as it was appointed them.

2 Kings 7:1 And Eliseus said: Hear ye the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord: Tomorrow, about this time, a bushel of fine flour shall be sold for a stater, and two bushels of barley for a stater, in the gate of Samaria.

Psalm 81:16 And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

Psalm 147:14 Who hath placed peace in thy borders: and filleth thee with the fat of corn.

Ezekiel 27:17 Juda and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants with the best corn: they set forth balm, and honey, and oil and rosin in thy fairs.

2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that being rich he became poor for your sakes: that through his poverty you might be rich.

Revelation 6:6 And I heard, as it were a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying: Two pounds of wheat for a penny, and thrice two pounds of barley for a penny: and see thou hurt not the wine and the oil.

but.

John 6:7 Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one may take a little.

John 11:21,32 Martha therefore said to Jesus: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. . . .

2 Kings 4:42-44 And 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. . . .

Psalm 78:19,41 And they spoke ill of God: they said: Can God furnish a table in the wilderness? . . .

Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
8One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to him: 9There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves and two fishes. But what are these among so many? 10Then 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.…
Cross References
2 Kings 4:43
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.

John 6:11
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.

John 21:9
As soon then as they came to land they saw hot coals lying, and a fish laid thereon, and bread.

John 21:10
Jesus saith to them: Bring hither of the fishes which you have now caught.

John 21:13
And Jesus cometh and taketh bread and giveth them: and fish in like manner.

John 6:8
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