John 6:4
And the pask was full nigh, a feast day of the Jews. (And the Passover was very near, a Feast Day, or a Festival, for the Jews.)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh.
In Context
Cross References
Leviticus 23:5In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, at eventide, is [the] pask of the Lord; (In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, is the Lord’s Passover;)
Deuteronomy 16:1Keep thou the month of new fruits, and of the beginning of summer, that thou make pask to thy Lord God; for in this month thy Lord God led thee out of Egypt in the night. (Observe thou the month of Abib, at the beginning of summer, and keep thou the Passover to the Lord thy God; for in this month the Lord thy God led thee out of Egypt in the night.)
John 5:1After these things there was a feast day of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 12:1Therefore Jesus before six days of pask came to Bethany, where Lazarus had been dead, whom Jesus raised (from the dead). (And so six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus had died, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.)
Matthew Henry on John 6:2-15
The Five Thousand Fed. 1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. 2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. 3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. 4 And the passover, a feast of the Jews, was nigh. 5 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? 6 And this he said to prove… Read the whole commentary →