John 21:5

Easy-to-Read Version

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Friends,”

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

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

English Standard Version
Jesus said to them, "Children, do you have any fish?" They answered him, "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."

New Century Version
Then he said to them, "Friends, did you catch any fish?" 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."

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

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

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

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.

Darby Translation
Jesus therefore says to them, Children, have ye anything to eat? 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.

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

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

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

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

Bible in Basic English
So Jesus said to them, Children, have you taken any fish? They made answer, 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

New King James Version
Then Jesus said to them, "Children, have you any food?" They answered 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."

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.

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.

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

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."

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

Contextual Overview

¹ Later, Jesus appeared again to his followers by Lake Galilee. This is how it happened: ² Some of the followers were together—Simon Peter, Thomas (called Didymus), Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the two sons of Zebedee, and two other followers. ³ Simon Peter said, "I am going out to fish." The other followers said, "We will go with you." So all of them went out and got into the boat. They fished that night but caught nothing. ⁴ Early the next morning Jesus stood on the shore. But the followers did not know it was Jesus. ⁵ Then he said to them, "Friends, have you caught any fish?" They answered, "No." ⁶ He said, "Throw your net into the water on the right side of your boat. You will find some fish there." So they did this. They caught so many fish that they could not pull the net back into the boat. ⁷ The follower Jesus loved very much said to Peter, "That man is the Lord!" When Peter heard him say it was the Lord, he wrapped his coat around himself. (He had taken his clothes off to work.) Then he jumped into the water. ⁸ The other followers went to shore in the boat. They pulled the net full of fish. They were not very far from shore, only about 100 yards. ⁹ When they stepped out of the boat and onto the shore, they saw a fire of hot coals. There were fish on the fire and some bread there too. ¹⁰ Then Jesus said, "Bring some of the fish that you 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 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him. He said, "I am God All-Powerful. Obey me and live the right way.

Genesis 17:17
Abraham bowed his face to the ground to show he respected God. But he laughed and said to himself, "I am 100 years old. I cannot have a son, and Sarah is 90 years old. She cannot have a child."

Romans 4:19
Abraham was almost a hundred years old, so he was past the age for having children. Also, Sarah could not have children. Abraham was well aware of this, but his faith in God never became weak.

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.