John 6:9

6:9 “Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good ¹  are these for so many people?”

John 6:13

6:13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves ²  left over by the people who had eaten.

John 6:19

6:19 Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, ³  they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, ⁴  approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

[6:9]  ¹ tn Grk “but what are these”; the word “good” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

[6:13]  ² sn Note that the fish mentioned previously (in John 6:9) are not emphasized here, only the five barley loaves. This is easy to understand, however, because the bread is of primary importance for the author in view of Jesus’ upcoming discourse on the Bread of Life.

[6:19]  ³ tn Grk “about twenty-five or thirty stades” (a stade as a unit of linear measure is about 607 feet or 187 meters).

[6:19]  ⁴ tn Or “sea.” See the note on “lake” in v. 16. John uses the phrase ἐπί (epi, “on”) followed by the genitive (as in Mark, instead of Matthew’s ἐπί followed by the accusative) to describe Jesus walking “on the lake.”