Matthew 14:19 KJV
And he commanded the multitude
to sit down on the grass,
and took the five loaves, and the two fishes,
and looking up to heaven,
he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves
to his disciples,
and the disciples to the multitude.
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📖 Other translations
New International Version
And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
New Living Translation
Then he told the people to sit down on the grass. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he gave the bread to the disciples, who distributed it to the people.
English Standard Version
Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
Berean Study Bible
And He directed the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. Then He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
Berean Literal Bible
And having commanded the crowds to sit down on the grass, having taken the five loaves and the two fish, having looked up to heaven, He spoke a blessing. And having broken, He gave the loaves to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds.
New King James Version
Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes.
New American Standard Bible
And ordering the crowds to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looked up toward heaven. He blessed the food and breaking the loaves, He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.
NASB 1995
Ordering the people to sit down on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds,
NASB 1977
And ordering the multitudes to recline on the grass, He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food, and breaking the loaves He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the multitudes,
Amplified Bible
Then He ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and He took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people,
📖 Word by word
He commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass.
This, too, was done with a calm and orderly precision.
They were to sit down in companies of fifty or a hundred each, and thus the number of those who were fed became a matter of easy calculation.
Mark, with a vivid picturesqueness, describes them as presenting the appearance of so many beds of flowers in a well-ordered garden. The bright colours of Eastern dress probably made the resemblance more striking than it would be with a like multitude so arranged among ourselves.
Looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake.
The act was natural and simple enough, the “saying grace” (John uses the word, “giving thanks”) of the head of a Jewish household as he gathered his family around him.
The formulæ in such cases were commonly short and simple, like our own, such e.g. as, “May God, the ever-blessed One, bless what He has given us.”
Looking, however, to the teaching which followed the miracle, as in John 6, and to our Lord’s subsequent use at the Last Supper of the same words and acts, with others which gave them a new and higher meaning, we can hardly be wrong in thinking that as He now distributed the earthly bread to the hungering crowd, through the agency of His Apostles, there was present to His mind the thought that hereafter He would, through the same instrumentality, impart to souls that hungered after righteousness the gift of communion with Himself, that thus they might feed on the true Bread that cometh down from heaven.
It lies in the nature of the case, as a miracle of the highest order, that the process of multiplication is inconceivable in its details. Did each loaf, in succession, supply a thousand with food, and then come to an end, its place taken by another? Was the structure of the fishes, bone and skin and head, reproduced in each portion that was given to the guests at that great feast? We know not, and the Evangelists did not care to ask or to record. It was enough for them that the multitude “did all eat, and were filled.”
📖 Greek
And
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
And, even, also, namely.
He instructed
κελεύσας (keleusas)
Verb – Aorist Participle Active – Nominative Masculine Singular
To command, order, direct, bid. From a primary kello; ‘hail’; to incite by word, i.e. Order.
the
τοὺς (tous)
Article – Accusative Masculine Plural
The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
crowds
ὄχλους (ochlous)
Noun – Accusative Masculine Plural
From a derivative of echo; a throng; by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot.
to sit down
ἀνακλιθῆναι (anaklithēnai)
Verb – Aorist Infinitive Passive
To lay upon, lean against, lay down, make to recline; pass: I lie back, recline. From ana and klino; to lean back.
on
ἐπὶ (epi)
Preposition
On, to, against, on the basis of, at.
the
τοῦ (tou)
Article – Genitive Masculine Singular
The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
grass.
χόρτου (chortou)
Noun – Genitive Masculine Singular
Grass, herbage, growing grain, hay. Apparently a primary word; a ‘court’ or ‘garden’, i.e. herbage or vegetation.
Taking
λαβὼν (labōn)
Verb – Aorist Participle Active – Nominative Masculine Singular
(a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of.
the
τοὺς (tous)
Article – Accusative Masculine Plural
The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
five
πέντε (pente)
Adjective – Accusative Masculine Plural
Five. A primary number; ‘five’.
loaves
ἄρτους (artous)
Noun – Accusative Masculine Plural
Bread, a loaf, food. From airo; bread or a loaf.
and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
And, even, also, namely.
the
τοὺς (tous)
Article – Accusative Masculine Plural
The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
two
δύο (dyo)
Adjective – Accusative Masculine Plural
Two. A primary numeral; ‘two’.
fish
ἰχθύας (ichthyas)
Noun – Accusative Masculine Plural
A fish. Of uncertain affinity; a fish.
[and] looking up
ἀναβλέψας (anablepsas)
Verb – Aorist Participle Active – Nominative Masculine Singular
To look up, recover my sight. From ana and blepo; to look up; by implication, to recover sight.
to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.
heaven,
οὐρανὸν (ouranon)
Noun – Accusative Masculine Singular
Perhaps from the same as oros; the sky; by extension, heaven; by implication, happiness, power, eternity; specially, the Gospel.
He spoke a blessing.
εὐλόγησεν (eulogēsen)
Verb – Aorist Indicative Active – 3rd Person Singular
(lit: I speak well of) I bless; pass: I am blessed. From a compound of eu and logos; to speak well of, i.e. to bless.
Then
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
And, even, also, namely.
He broke
κλάσας (klasas)
Verb – Aorist Participle Active – Nominative Masculine Singular
To break (in pieces), break bread. A primary verb; to break.
the
τοὺς (tous)
Article – Accusative Masculine Plural
The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
loaves
ἄρτους (artous)
Noun – Accusative Masculine Plural
Bread, a loaf, food. From airo; bread or a loaf.
[and] gave [them]
ἔδωκεν (edōken)
Verb – Aorist Indicative Active – 3rd Person Singular
To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give.
to the
τοῖς (tois)
Article – Dative Masculine Plural
The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
disciples,
μαθηταῖς (mathētais)
Noun – Dative Masculine Plural
A learner, disciple, pupil. From manthano; a learner, i.e. Pupil.
and
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
A primary particle; but, and, etc.
the
οἱ (hoi)
Article – Nominative Masculine Plural
The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
disciples
μαθηταὶ (mathētai)
Noun – Nominative Masculine Plural
A learner, disciple, pupil. From manthano; a learner, i.e. Pupil.
to the
τοῖς (tois)
Article – Dative Masculine Plural
The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.
people.
ὄχλοις (ochlois)
Noun – Dative Masculine Plural
From a derivative of echo; a throng; by implication, the rabble; by extension, a class of people; figuratively, a riot.
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