John 21:5

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

So He called out to them, "Children, do you have any fish?" "No," they answered.

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus hollered out to them, "Hey, amigos. Did y'all catch anything?""Nope," they answered.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Jesus *said to them, "Children, do you have any fish?" They answered Him, "No."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Jesus said to them, "Children, you do not have any fish, do you?" They answered Him, "No."

Bible in Basic English
So Jesus said to them, Children, have you taken any fish? They made answer, No.

Darby Translation
Jesus therefore says to them, Children, have ye anything to eat? They answered him, No.

New King James Version
Then Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any food?" They answered Him, "No."

Christian Standard Bible®
"Men," Jesus called to them, "you don't have any fish, do you?" "No," they answered.

World English Bible
Jesus therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Then Jesus saith to them, Children, have ye any meat?

Weymouth's New Testament
He called to them. "Children," He said, "have you any food there?" "No," they answered.

King James Version (1611)
Then Iesus saith vnto them, Children, haue ye any meat? They answered him, No.

Literal Translation
Then Jesus said to them, Children, do you not have anything to eat? They answered Him, No.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus sayde vnto the: Childre, haue ye eny thinge to eate? They answered hi:No.

Mace New Testament (1729)
then said Jesus, my lads, have ye any fish?

THE MESSAGE
Jesus spoke to them: "Good morning! Did you catch anything for breakfast?" They answered, "No."

Amplified Bible
So Jesus said to them, "Children, do you have any fish [to eat along with your bread]?" They answered, "No."

American Standard Version
Jesus therefore saith unto them, Children, have ye aught to eat? They answered him, No.

Revised Standard Version
Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any fish?" They answered him, "No."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus sayde vnto the: syrs have ye eny meate? They answered him no.

Update Bible Version
Jesus therefore says to them, Children, have you anything to eat? They answered him, No.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then Jesus saith to them, Children, have ye any victuals? They answered him, No.

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus, therefore, saith to them, `Lads, have ye any meat?'

New Century Version
Then he said to them, "Friends, did you catch any fish?" They answered, "No."

New English Translation
So Jesus said to them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?" They replied, "No."

Contemporary English Version
Jesus shouted, "Friends, have you caught anything?" "No!" they answered.

Complete Jewish Bible
He said to them, "You don't have any fish, do you?" "No," they answered him.

English Standard Version
Jesus said to them, "Children, do you have any fish?" They answered him, "No."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Iesus then said vnto them, Syrs, haue ye any meate? They answered him, No.

George Lamsa Translation
So Jesus said to them, Boys, have you got anything to eat? They said to him, No.

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua therefore said to them, "Children, have you anything to eat?" They answered him, "No."

International Standard Version
Jesus said to them, "Children, you don't have any fish, do you?" They answered him, "No."Luke 24:41;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
And Jeshu said to them, Children, have you any thing to eat ? They say to him, No.

Murdock Translation
And Jesus said to them: Lads, have ye any thing to eat? They say to him: No.

New Living Translation
He called out, "Fellows, have you caught any fish?" "No," they replied.

New Life Bible
Then Jesus said to them, "Children, do you have any fish?" They said, "No."

English Revised Version
Jesus therefore saith unto them, Children, have ye aught to eat? They answered him, No.

New Revised Standard
Jesus said to them, "Children, you have no fish, have you?" They answered him, "No."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Jesus, therefore, saith unto them - Children! perhaps ye have nothing to eat? They answered him - No.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus therefore said to them: Children, have you any meat? They answered him: No.

King James Version
Then Jesus saith unto them, Children, have ye any meat? They answered him, No.

Lexham English Bible
So Jesus said to them, "Children, you do not have any fish to eat, do you? They answered him, "No."

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus sayth vnto them: Children, haue ye any meate? They aunswered hym, no.

Easy-to-Read Version
Then he said to them, "Friends, have you caught any fish?" They answered, "No."

New American Standard Bible
So Jesus said to them, "Children, you do not have any fish to eat, do you?" They answered Him, "No."

Good News Translation
Then he asked them, "Young men, haven't you caught anything?" "Not a thing," they answered.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Jhesus seith to hem, Children, whethir ye han ony souping thing? Thei answeriden to hym, Nay. He seide to hem,

Contextual Overview

¹Later, by the Sea of Tiberias, Jesus again revealed Himself to the disciples. He made Himself known in this way: ²Simon Peter, Thomas called Didymus, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two other disciples were together. ³Simon Peter told them, "I am going fishing." "We will go with you," they said. So they went out and got into the boat, but caught nothing that night. ⁴Early in the morning, Jesus stood on the shore, but the disciples did not recognize that it was Jesus. ⁵So He called out to them, "Children, do you have any fish?" "No," they answered.⁶He told them, "Cast the net on the right side of the boat, and you will find some." So they cast it there, and they were unable to haul it in because of the great number of fish. ⁷Then the disciple whom Jesus loved said to Peter, "It is the Lord!" As soon as Simon Peter heard that it was the Lord, he put on his outer garment (for he had removed it) and jumped into the sea. ⁸The other disciples came ashore in the boat. They dragged in the net full of fish, for they were not far from land, only about a hundred yards. ⁹When they landed, they saw a charcoal fire there with fish on it, and some bread. ¹⁰Jesus told them, "Bring some of the fish you have just caught."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Children: or, Sirs, 1 John 2:13, 1 John 2:18,*Gr.

have: Psalms 37:3, Luke 24:41-43, Philippians 4:11-13, Philippians 4:19, Hebrews 13:5

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 19:6 - cake 2 Kings 4:38 - Set on the great pot Proverbs 23:15 - My son Matthew 9:2 - Son Mark 8:7 - fishes Mark 10:24 - Children

Cross-References

Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, "I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.

Genesis 17:17
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, "Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?"

Romans 4:19
Without weakening in his faith, he acknowledged the decrepitness of his body (since he was about a hundred years old) and the lifelessness of Sarah's womb.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, John 13:33 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, מדם למלעס, "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. Christ's children, true believers, are sometimes without spiritual food; there is always indeed enough in Christ, and he has an heart to give it; but either through prevailing iniquity they feed on something else, or do not go to him for food, or go elsewhere; but he will not suffer them to starve; for as he has made provisions for them in the ministry of the word and ordinances; and he himself is the bread of life; if they do not ask him for food, he will ask them whether they have any; will kindly invite them to the provisions he himself makes; will bid them welcome, and bless them to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Children - A term of affection and friendship, 1 John 2:18.

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

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 21:5. 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: John 6:9; John 6:9.