John 6:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to Jesus,

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  • Matt 4:18 : 18 And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Peter, and Andrew, his brother, who were putting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.
  • John 1:40-44 : 40 Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two men who, hearing what John said, went after Jesus. 41 Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ). 42 And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter). 43 The day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip and said to him, Come and be my disciple. 44 Now Philip's town was Beth-saida, where Andrew and Peter came from.

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  • John 6:9-13
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    9 There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

    10 Jesus said, Let the people be seated. Now there was much grass in that place. And those seated on the grass were about five thousand.

    11 Then Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had need of.

    12 And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted.

    13 So they took them up: twelve baskets full of broken bits of the five cakes which were over after the people had had enough.

  • John 6:5-7
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    5 Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

    6 This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.

    7 Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

  • John 1:39-41
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    39 He said to them, Come and see. They went with him then and saw where he was living; and they were with him all that day: it was then about the tenth hour of the day.

    40 Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, was one of the two men who, hearing what John said, went after Jesus.

    41 Early in the morning he came across his brother and said to him, We have made discovery! It is the Messiah! (which is to say, the Christ).

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    16 But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.

    17 And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.

    18 And he said, Give them to me.

    19 And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

    20 And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.

  • Mark 6:35-38
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    35 And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

    36 Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

    37 But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

    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 8:4-7
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    4 And his disciples said in answer, How will it be possible to get enough bread for these men here in a waste place?

    5 And he put the question, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes.

    6 And he made the people be seated on the earth: and he took the seven cakes and, having given praise, he gave the broken bread to his disciples to put before them; and they put it before the people.

    7 And they had some small fishes; and blessing them he had them put before the people in the same way.

  • 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.

  • 22 Philip went and gave word of it to Andrew; and Andrew went with Philip to Jesus.

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    33 And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

    34 And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes.

  • 14 Simon, to whom he gave the name of Peter, and Andrew, his brother, and James and John and Philip and Bartholomew

  • 1 In those days again, when there was a great mass of people and they had no food, he made his disciples come to him and said to them,

  • Mark 6:43-44
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    43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken bits and of the fishes.

    44 And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.

  • 36 And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

  • Mark 8:19-20
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    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.

    20 And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven.

  • 18 And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot;

  • 41 And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them; and when the cakes were broken, he gave them to the disciples to put before the people; and he made division of the two fishes among them all.

  • 33 So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

  • Luke 9:16-17
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    16 And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

    17 And they all took the food and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits which were over, twelve baskets full.

  • 2 Now the names of the twelve are these: The first, Simon, who is named Peter, and Andrew, his brother; James, the son of Zebedee, and John, his brother;

  • 2 Simon Peter, Thomas named Didymus, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples were all together.

  • John 1:43-44
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    43 The day after this, Jesus had a desire to go into Galilee. He came across Philip and said to him, Come and be my disciple.

    44 Now Philip's town was Beth-saida, where Andrew and Peter came from.

  • 18 And when he was walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, whose other name was Peter, and Andrew, his brother, who were putting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

  • Matt 16:8-9
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    8 And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?

    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?

  • 24 Making a sign to him, Simon Peter said, Who is it he is talking about?

  • 6 And he said to them, Let down the net on the right side of the boat and you will get some. So they put it in the water and now they were not able to get it up again because of the great number of fish.

  • 13 Then Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and the fish in the same way.