John 21:13 BSB — MannaFest

John 21:13

Jesus came and took the bread and gave it to them, and He did the same with the fish.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

Jesus cometh, and taketh the bread, and giveth them, and the fish likewise.

KJV

Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.

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Commentary

4 voices

Gregory the Dialogist

Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 24 (604)

This does not differ from this reading either, for he ate fish and bread. For he who could be roasted like a fish from his humanity, refreshes us with bread from his divinity, who says: "I am the living bread who came down from heaven." Therefore he ate roasted fish and bread, so that by his own food he might show us that he both endured suffering from our humanity, and provided our refreshment from his divinity. If we consider this carefully, we see how it is also fitting for us to imitate.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Jesus then cometh and taketh bread,.... After they had taken the fish out of the net, and all was prepared for the meal, and the disciples were set down to eat, Christ came and took his place as the master of the feast, and head of the family; and taking up the bread, as was his usual method, he asked a blessing over it, and gave thanks for it. Beza's ancient copy, and one of Stephens's read, "and having given thanks he gave", &c. which is agreeably to his usual practice at meals.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(1.) The entertainment here was but ordinary; it was only a fish-dinner, and coarsely dressed; here was nothing pompous, nothing curious; plentiful indeed, but plain and homely. Hunger is the best sauce. Christ, though he entered upon his exalted state, showed himself alive by eating, not showed himself a prince by feasting.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread ... - It is not said that Jesus himself ate with them, but he gave them food. The design of this interview seems to have been to convince them that he had truly risen from the dead. Hence, he performed a miracle before they suspected that it was he, that there might be no room to say that they had ascribed to him the power of the miracle through friendship and collusion with him.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Ἔρχεται	Erchetai	Comes	G2064 →
Ἰησοῦς	Iēsous	Jesus	G2424 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
λαμβάνει	lambanei	takes	G2983 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
ἄρτον	arton	bread	G740 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
δίδωσιν	didōsin	gives [it]	G1325 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	to them	G846 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
ὀψάριον	opsarion	fish	G3795 →
ὁμοίως.	homoiōs	likewise.	G3668 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Acts 10:41
not by all the people, but by the witnesses God had chosen beforehand, by us who ate and drank with Him after He rose from the dead.
leads to
- John 14:22
  Judas (not Iscariot) asked Him, “Lord, why are You going to reveal Yourself to us and not to the world?”
- Acts 10:39
  We are witnesses of all that He did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem. And although they put Him to death by hanging Him on a tree,
- Acts 1:2–3
  until the day He was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostles He had chosen.
- Acts 13:31
  and for many days He was seen by those who had accompanied Him from Galilee to Jerusalem. They are now His witnesses to our people.
- John 14:17
  the Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him. But you do know Him, for He abides with you and will be in you.
Through
John 21:9
When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread.
leads to
- 1 Kings 19:5–6
  Then he lay down under the broom tree and fell asleep. Suddenly an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
- John 21:10
  Jesus told them, “Bring some of the fish you have just caught.”
- John 18:18
  Because it was cold, the servants and officers were standing around a charcoal fire they had made to keep warm. And Peter was also standing with them, warming himself.