John 4:18

4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with ¹  now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”

John 6:9-10

6:9 “Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good ²  are these for so many people?”

6:10 Jesus said, “Have ³  the people sit down.” (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) ⁴  So the men ⁵  sat down, about five thousand in number.

John 6:13

6:13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves ⁶  left over by the people who had eaten.

John 19:39

19:39 Nicodemus, the man who had previously come to Jesus ⁷  at night, ⁸  accompanied Joseph, ⁹  carrying a mixture of myrrh and aloes ¹⁰  weighing about seventy-five pounds. ¹¹ 

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¹ tn Grk “the one you have.”

² tn Grk “but what are these”; the word “good” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

³ tn Grk “Make.”

⁴ sn This is a parenthetical note by the author (suggesting an eyewitness recollection).

⁵ tn Here “men” has been used in the translation because the following number, 5,000, probably included only adult males (see the parallel in Matt 14:21).

⁶ sn Note that the fish mentioned previously (in John 6:9) are not emphasized here, only the five barley loaves. This is easy to understand, however, because the bread is of primary importance for the author in view of Jesus’ upcoming discourse on the Bread of Life.

⁷ tn Grk “him”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁸ sn See John 3:1-21.

⁹ tn Grk “came”; the words “accompanied Joseph” are not in the Greek text but are supplied for clarity.

¹⁰ sn Aloes refers to an aromatic resin from a plant similar to a lily, used for embalming a corpse.

¹¹ sn The Roman pound (λίτρα, litra) weighed twelve ounces or 325 grams. Thus 100 Roman pounds would be about 32.5 kilograms or 75 pounds.