Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”
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Jesus therefore said to them, “Children, have you anything to eat?” They answered him, “No.”
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Iesus sayde vnto the: syrs have ye eny meate? They answered him no.
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Iesus then said vnto them, Syrs, haue ye any meate? They answered him, No.
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to John 21:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Philippians 4:19 My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 4:11-13 Not that I speak because of lack, for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content in it. I know how to be humbled, and I also know how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
- Psalms 37:3 Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
- Luke 24:41-43 While they still didn’t believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, “Do you have anything here to eat?” They gave him a piece of a broiled fish and some honeycomb. He took them, and ate in front of them.
- Hebrews 13:5 Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
- 1 John 2:13 I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father.
- 1 John 2:18 Little children, these are the end times, and as you heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have arisen. By this we know that it is the final hour.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye…
5 Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.
Ver. 5. Children, have ye any meat?] This he saith as seeming to be some housekeeper, who passing by fishermen, calls to them, as willing to buy their fish for the use of his family. Galeacius Caracciolus, that noble marquis of Vico (that left all for Christ, preferring the blessing of God before the world’s warm sun), would go into the market at Geneva and cater for his household; grieving for nothing more than that he had not wherewithal to keep a better house for the relief of the poor. And in that respect only he wished himself as great a man at Geneva as he was in Italy. (His Life by Crashaw.)
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He asketh them if they had any thing to…
He asketh them if they had any thing to eat, not because he knew not, but in order to what he intended to do to make them more attentive to the miracle which he by and by intended to work.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then Jesus saith unto them, children,.... And still they…
Then Jesus saith unto them, children,.... And still they knew him not, though he used this endearing and familiar appellation, and which they had been wont to hear from him; and he had called them by a little before his departure from them, Joh 13:33 and which he uses here as expressive of his tender affection for them, their relation to him, and that he might be known by them:
have ye any meat? that is, as the Syriac renders it, , "anything to eat"; meaning fish that they had caught; and whether they had got a sufficient quantity to make a meal of for him and them.
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They answered him no; they had got nothing at all; or at least what they had was far from being enough to make a breakfast of; for so a meal early in a morning may be most properly called, though it is afterwards called dining. Christ's children, true believers, are sometimes without spiritual food; there is always indeed enough in Christ, and he has an heart to give it; but either through prevailing iniquity they feed on something else, or do not go to him for food, or go elsewhere; but he will not suffer them to starve; for as he has made provisions for them in the ministry of the word and ordinances; and he himself is the bread of life; if they do not ask him for food, he will ask them whether they have any; will kindly invite them to the provisions he himself makes; will bid them welcome, and bless them to them.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 5. Children] παιδια, a term of familiarity and…
Verse 5. Children] παιδια, a term of familiarity and affectionate kindness: it is the vocative case plural of παιδιον, which is the diminutive of παις, and literally signifies little children, or beloved children. How the margin has made sirs out of it I cannot conceive.
Any meat] προσφαγιον from προς, besides, and φαγω, I eat; any thing that is eaten with bread, or such like solid substances, to make the deglutition the more easy: here it evidently means any kind of fish; and our Lord seems to have appeared at first in the character of a person who wished to purchase a part of what they had caught: See Clarke on Joh 6:9.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Children - A term of affection and friendship, 1Jo…
Children - A term of affection and friendship, 1Jo 2:18.
Any meat - This word (Greek) means anything eaten with bread. It was used by the Greeks especially to denote fish (Schleusner).
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Have you any meat?[1] Have you any thing to…
Have you any meat?[1] Have you any thing to eat? This is what is literally signified, both in the Latin and in the Greek text. (Witham)
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Numquid pulmentarium habetis? Greek: me ti prosphagion.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Children--This term would not necessarily identify Him, being not…
Children--This term would not necessarily identify Him, being not unusual from any superior; but when they did recognize Him, they would feel it sweetly like Himself.
have ye any meat?--provisions, supplies, meaning fish.
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They answered . . . No--This was in His wonted style, making them tell their case, and so the better prepare them for what was coming.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 5. Children—A term of endearment, translated little children in…
5. Children—A term of endearment, translated little children in 1Jn_2:18. It marks the absent Saviour’s love for his Church on earth. He is the Ancient of Days; they are ever being successively born into life.
Have ye any meat?—The word meat signifies any food eaten additionally to bread, and here fish. Chrysostom says our Lord addresses them as though he were one who wanted to buy fish. No—The question was to bring out their complete failure, preparatory to his giving the command that would ensure success. It is when we have fully realized our own insufficiency that we receive of the fulness of Christ.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 5. Then Jesus] Jesus therefore; because they did not…
5. Then Jesus] Jesus therefore; because they did not recognise Him.
Children] Perhaps a mere term of friendly address (paidia); not the affectionate term used Joh_13:33 (teknia). Paidia occurs 1Jn_2:14; 1Jn_2:18; teknia occurs 1Jn_2:1; 1Jn_2:12; 1Jn_2:28; 1Jn_3:7; 1Jn_3:18; 1Jn_4:4; 1Jn_5:21.
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meat] The Greek word (prosphagion) occurs here only. It appears to mean something eaten with bread, especially fish. Perhaps we should translate, Have ye any fish?
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (5) Children, have ye any meat?—The word rendered “Children”…
(5) Children, have ye any meat?—The word rendered “Children” (or, as the margin has it, Sirs), is used in addressing others only by St. John among the New Testament writers (1Jn_2:13; 1Jn_2:18). It is not the word used in Joh_13:33, where we have an expression denoting His affectionate tenderness for the disciples, which would not have been appropriate here, for He does not at once reveal His identity to them. It is a word which, indeed, may express His love for them (comp. Joh_4:49), but which appears also to have been used as an address to workmen or inferiors, not unlike our own words “boys” or “lads.” They seem to take it in this sense, as though some traveller passing by asked the question because he wished to purchase some of their fish.
The word rendered “meat” occurs here only in the New Testament. It means anything eaten with bread, and was used as equivalent to the fish which was the ordinary relish. (Comp. Note on Joh_6:9.)
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 5, 6. Jesus therefore saith unto them. They…
Vers. 5, 6. Jesus therefore saith unto them. They failed to recognize his first appearance, so he permits them to hear the voice which had often poured such music into their ears. Children; not teknia , the phrase used Joh_13:33, but paidia , "young people," "lads a term of less intimate familiarity, though the apostle himself used it in 1Jn_2:13, 18 (in vers. 1 and 12 treknia is used, apparently in interchange with it). The mh ti suggests a negative answer. Prosfagion is that which is eaten with bread, and is commonly oqon or oqarion , something roasted for the purpose of eating with bread. Since fish was very frequently used for the purpose, the word was often used for "fish" itself. (LXX, Num_11:22Jo Num_6:9, Num_6:11. Other equivalent words are found in Attic Greek, prosfaghma, prosoqhma) Children (lads, young men yonder), you have nothing, I suppose, to eat? They answered him, No. In all this scene the risen Lord showed himself interested and co-operating with them in their daily toil, as engaged in the same work with them. Their listless manner showed that they had toiled in vain, and, perhaps with tone or gesture of unwillingness to confess their failure, they replied in the negative. Then he said to them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship; the side opposite to that on which they were dragging it along. Moreover, the "right hand," the "right eye," the "right ear," the "right side," are proverbially the more useful, fruitful, or honorable. The imagery is preserved throughout Scripture. And ye shall find. Therefore they cast it. And in order to do this they would probably have had to haul a considerable portion of it into the boat for the necessary transference from left to right. They at once obeyed the summons, remembering what they had previously found to have been their experience, (Lu 5) and no longer were they able, or had they strength, to draw it into the boat. Elkusai , is here quite a different process from the surontev of ver. 8, which describes the hauling, tugging, of the net to shore. The difficulty arose from (or, because of) the multitude of the fishes. The miracle here is a simple indication of the higher knowledge which the Lord possessed. This huge shoal may, humanly speaking, have been perceived in its approach; so that the event is more impressive in its analogical force than in its supernatural machinery. It suggests the surprising results that would accompany their labor when they should under the Lord"s own injunction and inspiration, become veritable fishers of men. The parabolic teaching of this miracle is unusually obvious.
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Jesus said unto them, Have ye any meat?
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Jesus said unto them, Have ye any meat?
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The tender love of the risen Christ
The question pertained to the wants of the body. Christs resurrection body was still in sympathy with theirs. The higher He rose the deeper and more perfect were His sympathies. He could hunger no more, be weary no more: yet this made Him more keenly alive to the privations of His brethren. He did not need to put the question: yet He wishes to speak to them as a human friend interested in their welfare. He awakens their confidence as a stranger, but soon drops the strangers dress. Blessed surprise! Such as that of Mary and the Emmaus travellers; as if He delighted in the surprises of love.
I. THE WATCHFULNESS OF THE RISEN CHRIST. He marks each sheep and lamb of His flock with more than a shepherds eye. The glory with which He is surrounded does not make Him unwatchful. Amidst His plenty He remembers the penury of His own. You never lacked a meal but Jesus asked this question to supply it. You never lacked a spiritual meal but He puts the same question for the same purpose. He watches the hunger of every congregation, and asks, Children, have ye any meat?
II. THE PITY OF THE RISEN CHRIST. I have compassion on the multitudes, He once said. Such was His pity after His resurrection; and we are sure that the throne has not lessened that pity. He pities His Churchs and each saints hunger and leanness. Let us learn this and imitate it.
III. THE BOUNTY OF THE RISEN CHRIST. His is no empty pity. He does not say merely, Be ye warmed and filled: He opens His treasure-house and supplies us. His stores are boundless. He delights to dispense them; nay, to provide channels for them, as in the case of the disciples when He filled their nets, kindled the fire, and prepared the meal. He fills the cruse and barrel of His widowed Church, and feeds us with the finest of the wheat. (H. Bonar, D. D.)
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