'Five' in the Bible

"We have nothing here," they said, "but five loaves and a couple of fish."

and He told all the people to sit down on the grass. Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and after looking up to heaven and blessing them, He broke up the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples distributed them to the people.

Do you not yet understand? nor even remember the 5,000 and the five loaves, and how many basketfuls you carried away,

And going out about five o'clock he found others loitering, and he asked them, "'Why have you been standing here all day long, doing nothing?'

"When those came who had begun at five o'clock, they received a shilling apiece;

Five of them were foolish and five were wise.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one--to each according to his individual capacity; and then started from home.

Without delay the one who had received the five talents went and employed them in business, and gained five more.

The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, and said, "'Sir, it was five talents that you entrusted to me: see, I have gained five more.'

"How many loaves have you?" He inquired; "go and see." So they found out, and said, "Five; and a couple of fish."

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and lifting His eyes to Heaven He blessed the food. Then He broke the loaves into portions which He went on handing to the disciples to distribute; giving pieces also of the two fish to them all.

When I broke up the five loaves for the 5,000 men, how many baskets did you carry away full of broken portions?" "Twelve," they said.

and in course of time his wife Elizabeth conceived, and kept herself secluded five months.

"There were once two men in debt to one money-lender," said Jesus; "one owed him five hundred shillings and the other fifty.

"You yourselves," He said, "must give them food." "We have nothing," they replied, "but five loaves and a couple of fish, unless indeed we were to go and buy provisions for all this host of people."

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to Heaven He blessed them and broke them into portions which He gave to the disciples to distribute to the people.

Are not five sparrows sold for a penny? and yet not one of them is a thing forgotten in God's sight.

For from this time there will be in one house five persons split into parties. Three will form a party against two and two will form a party against three;

"A second pleaded, "'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and am on my way to try them. Pray hold me excused.'

For I have five brothers. Let him earnestly warn them, lest they also come to this place of torment.'

"The second came, and said, "'Your pound, Sir, has produced five pounds.'

"So he said to this one also, "'And you, be the governor of five towns.'

"for you have had five husbands, and the man you have at present is not your husband. You have spoken the truth in saying that."

Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, called in Hebrew 'Bethesda.' It has five arcades.

"There is a boy here with five barley loaves and a couple of fish: but what is that among so many?"

Accordingly they gathered them up; and with the fragments of the five barley loaves--the broken portions that remained over after they had done eating--they filled twelve baskets.

But we ourselves sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and five days later joined them in the Troad, where we remained for a week.

Five days after this, Ananias the High Priest came down to Caesarea with a number of Elders and a pleader called Tertullus. They stated to the Governor the case against Paul.

but in the Church I would rather speak five words with my understanding--so as to instruct others also--than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

Afterwards He was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once, most of whom are still alive, although some of them have now fallen asleep.

From the Jews I five times have received forty lashes all but one.

Their mission was not to kill, but to cause awful agony for five months; and this agony was like that which a scorpion inflicts when it stings a man.

They had tails like those of scorpions, and also stings; and in their tails lay their power of injuring mankind for five months.

And they are seven kings: five of them have fallen, and the one is still reigning. The seventh has not yet come, but when he comes he must continue for a short time.