“Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?” 10 Jesus said, “Make the people recline.” (Now there was a lot of grass in the place.) So the men reclined, approximately five thousand in number. 11 Then Jesus took the bread, and after he[a] had given thanks, he distributed it[b] to those who were reclining—likewise also of the fish, as much as they wanted.

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Footnotes

  1. John 6:11 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“had given thanks”) which is understood as temporal
  2. John 6:11 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation