'Five' in the Bible
Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight.
From now on, five in one household will be divided: three against two, and two against three.
“Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I’m going to try them out. I ask you to excuse me.’
because I have five brothers—to warn them, so they won’t also come to this place of torment.’
“The second came and said, ‘Master, your mina has made five minas.’
“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.
“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”
So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.
but we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread. In five days we reached them at Troas, where we spent seven days.
After five days Ananias the high priest came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. These men presented their case against Paul to the governor.
yet in the church I would rather speak five words with my understanding, in order to teach others also, than 10,000 words in another language.
They were not permitted to kill them but were to torment them for five months; their torment is like the torment caused by a scorpion when it strikes a man.
and they had tails with stingers like scorpions, so that with their tails they had the power to harm people for five months.
They are also seven kings: Five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come, and when he comes, he must remain for a little while.