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John 21:5

John 21:5

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

Then Jesus saith unto them, children,.... And still they knew him not, though he used this endearing and familiar appellation, and which they had been wont to hear from him; and he had called them by a little before his departure from them, and which he uses here as expressive of his tender affection for them, their relation to him, and that he might be known by them:have ye any meat?

that is, as the Syriac renders it, oelml Mdm, "anything to eat"; meaning fish that they had caught; and whether they had got a sufficient quantity to make a meal of for him and them.They answered him no; they had got nothing at all; or at least what they had was far from being enough to make a breakfast of; for so a meal early in a morning may be most properly called, though it is afterwards called dining.

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