John 6:9
“Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”
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- 2 Kings 4:42–44 Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha. But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’” So he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the LORD.
- Matthew 14:17 “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.
- Mark 6:38 “Go and see how many loaves you have,” He told them. And after checking, they said, “Five — and two fish.”