Discovery BoxJohn 6:10 
Context6:10 Jesus said, “Have 1 the people sit down.” (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) 2 So the men 3 sat down, about five thousand in number.
John 9:8
Context9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously 4 as a beggar began saying, 5 “Is this not the man 6 who used to sit and beg?”
1 tn Grk “Make.”
2 sn This is a parenthetical note by the author (suggesting an eyewitness recollection).
3 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).
4 tn Or “formerly.”
5 tn An ingressive force (“began saying”) is present here because the change in status of the blind person provokes this new response from those who knew him.
6 tn Grk “the one.”
