- Five loaves of bread (and two fish) are what Jesus used to feed the 5000 (Matthew 14, etc)
- Five virgins were foolish and five were wise in the parable Jesus told (Matthew 25:2)
- Five bags of gold are the most bags given to the man in the parable Jesus told and who gained five bags more (Matthew 25)
- Five months - the period Elizabeth remained in seclusion after she became pregnant with John (Luke 1:24)
- Five sparrows could be bought for two pennies in Jesus's day (Luke 12:6)
- Five are in the family Jesus speaks of being divided against each other, three against two and two against three (Luke 12:52)
- Five yoke of oxen are the number purchased by the man who is on his way to try them out and so cannot follow Jesus (Luke 14:19)
- Five brothers are the number the rich man had and who he wanted warned so that they would not end up in Hades like him (Luke16:28)
- Five husbands is the number the Samaritan woman had before living with a man who was not her husband (John 4:18)
- Five covered colonnades surround the pool called Bethesda where the blind man was healed (John 5:2)
(Also, five intelligible words are the number Paul would prefer to speak over ten thousand in a tongue (1 Corinthians 14:19) and five times is the number of times Paul received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one (2 Corinthians 11:24). In Revelation five months is the length of time allowed for torture (Revelation 9:5) and Five kings have fallen of seven (Revelation 17:10))
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