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2 Then a great multitude followed Him, because they saw His signs which He performed on those who were adiseased.  
3 And Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples.
4 aNow the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.  
5 aThen Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to bPhilip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?”  
6 But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
7 Philip answered Him, a“Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little.”  
8 One of His disciples, aAndrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,  
9 “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, abut what are they among so many?”  
10 Then Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
11 And Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them1 to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.  
12 So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.”
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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John 6:4

And the passover - was nigh - This happened about ten or twelve days before the third passover which Christ celebrated after his baptism. Calmet. For a particular account of our Lord' s four passovers see the note on John 2:13.

For thirty days before the Passover there were great preparations made by the Jews, but especially in the last nineteen days, in order to celebrate the feast with due solemnity. Lightfoot supposes that what is here related happened within the last fifteen days. See Calmet' s opinion above.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing John 6:4:

John 2:13
John 5:1
John 6:10
John 7:1

 

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