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Verse	Translation	Text
Joh 21:5	King James	Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
Children--This term would not necessarily identify Him, being not unusual from any superior; but when they did recognize Him, they would feel it sweetly like Himself. have ye any meat?--provisions, supplies, meaning fish. They answered . . . No--This was in His wonted style, making them tell their case, and so the better prepare them for what was coming.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

Children--This term would not necessarily identify Him, being not unusual from any superior; but when they did recognize Him, they would feel it sweetly like Himself.

have ye any meat?--provisions, supplies, meaning fish.

They answered . . . No--This was in His wonted style, making them tell their case, and so the better prepare them for what was coming.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
Children - A term of affection and friendship, Jo1 2:18. Any meat - This word (Greek) means anything eaten with bread. It was used by the Greeks especially to denote fish (Schleusner).

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

Children - A term of affection and friendship, Jo1 2:18.

Any meat - This word (Greek) means anything eaten with bread. It was used by the Greeks especially to denote fish (Schleusner).

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]
Children (παιδία) Or, little children. Used also by John, in address, twice in the First Epistle (Jo1 2:13, Jo1 2:18), where, however, the more common word is τεκνία, little children. Have ye any meat (μή τι προσφάγιον ἔχετε)? The interrogative μή τι indicates that a negative answer is expected: you have not, I suppose, anything. Προσφάγιον is equivalent to ὀψάριον, what is added to bread at a meal, especially fish. See on Joh 6:9. Only here in the New Testament. Wyc, any supping-thing.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]

Children (παιδία)

Or, little children. Used also by John, in address, twice in the First Epistle (Jo1 2:13, Jo1 2:18), where, however, the more common word is τεκνία, little children.

Have ye any meat (μή τι προσφάγιον ἔχετε)?

The interrogative μή τι indicates that a negative answer is expected: you have not, I suppose, anything. Προσφάγιον is equivalent to ὀψάριον, what is added to bread at a meal, especially fish. See on Joh 6:9. Only here in the New Testament. Wyc, any supping-thing.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Children - Παιδια, a term of familiarity and affectionate kindness: it is the vocative case plural of παιδιον, which is the diminutive of παις, and literally signifies little children, or beloved children. How the margin has made sirs out of it I cannot conceive. Any meat - Προσφαγιον from προς, besides, and φαγω, I eat; any thing that is eaten with bread, or such like solid substances, to make the deglutition the more easy: here it evidently means any kind of fish; and our Lord seems to have appeared at first in the character of a person who wished to purchase a part of what they had caught: see the note on Joh 6:9.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Children - Παιδια, a term of familiarity and affectionate kindness: it is the vocative case plural of παιδιον, which is the diminutive of παις, and literally signifies little children, or beloved children. How the margin has made sirs out of it I cannot conceive.

Any meat - Προσφαγιον from προς, besides, and φαγω, I eat; any thing that is eaten with bread, or such like solid substances, to make the deglutition the more easy: here it evidently means any kind of fish; and our Lord seems to have appeared at first in the character of a person who wished to purchase a part of what they had caught: see the note on Joh 6:9.

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