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Children (Paidia). Diminutive of pais and used here alone by Jesus in addressing his disciples. It is a colloquial expression like “my boys.” The aged Apostle John uses it in 1Jo 2:13, 1Jo 2:18.
Have ye aught to eat? (mē ti prosphagion echete). The negative answer is expected by this polite inquiry as in Joh 4:29. The rare and late word prosphagion from the root phag (esthiō, to eat) and pros (in addition) was used for a relish with bread and then for fish as here. So in the papyri. Nowhere else in the N.T.