Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?

General references

Bible References

Which

Matthew 14:17
And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.
Matthew 16:9
Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?
Mark 6:38
And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.
Mark 8:19
When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.
Luke 9:13
But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

Barley

Deuteronomy 8:8
A land of grain and vines and fig-trees and fair fruits; a land of oil-giving olive-trees and honey;
Deuteronomy 32:14
Butter from his cows and milk from his sheep, with fat of lambs and sheep of Bashan, and goats, and the heart of the grain; and for your drink, wine from the blood of the grape.
1 Kings 4:28
And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.
2 Kings 7:1
Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.
Psalm 81:16
I would give them the best grain for food; you would be full of honey from the rock.
Psalm 147:14
He gives peace in all your land, making your stores full of fat grain.
Ezekiel 27:17
Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave grain of Minnith and sweet cakes and honey and oil and perfume for your goods.
2 Corinthians 8:9
For you see the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, how though he had wealth, he became poor on your account, so that through his need you might have wealth.
Revelation 6:6
And a voice came to my ears, from the middle of the four beasts, saying, A measure of grain for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny: and see that you do no damage to the oil and the wine.

But

John 6:7
Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.
John 11:21
Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if you had been here my brother would not be dead.
2 Kings 4:42
Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.
Psalm 78:19
They said bitter words against God, saying, Is God able to make ready a table in the waste land?

General references

Matthew 14:17
And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.
Mark 6:38
And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

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