João 6

6 Now He said this to test him, for He Himself knew what He was about to do. 7 Philip answered Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread*How much bread can you buy with the wages for 200 days of manual labor? Probably an awful lot of it. But the crowd was so huge that Philip figured that even that much would not do it. [If a day’s wage would buy 50 small loaves, for instance, that would make 10,000 loaves—more people than bread.] would not be enough for them, so that each of them could receive a little." 8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, says to Him, 9 "There is a little boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two small fish, but what are they for so many?"*I think it must be understood that the boy handed them over willingly, so he participated in the miracle. We also must give to God willingly, and when we do we participate in the results.

10 Then Jesus said, "Make the people recline." Now there was plenty of grass in the place; so the men reclined, about five thousand in number. 11 Then Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples*Perhaps 3% of the Greek manuscripts, of inferior quality, omit the reference to the disciples here and have Jesus distributing directly to the crowd (as in NIV, NASB, LB, TEV, etc.), making John contradict the other three Gospels. to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 So when they were full He says to His disciples, "Collect the leftover fragments so that nothing be wasted."*Notice the care that nothing be wasted. A common human reaction would be, ‘easy come, easy go’—since Jesus can make more any time He wants, why worry. But no, the Lord does not look at it that way. 13 So they collected and filled twelve baskets*They were large baskets, probably borrowed from the fishing boats (see verse 23 below). The disciples probably had help with the collecting; and in any case, they did not keep that food. with fragments from the five barley loaves that were left over from those who had eaten.