Do fish count as reptiles?
Irenaeus, Against Heresies 2:22
(3) He there seeing a great crowd had followed Him, fed all that multitude with five loaves of bread, and twelve baskets of fragments remained over and above.
No mention of fish.
Irenaeus, Against Heresies 2:24
and our Lord, after(1) blessing the five loaves, fed with them five thousand men.
No mention of fish.
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 2, Chapters 18 to 35 | CARM.org
Arnobius Against the Heathen 1:46
who with [f]ive loaves satisfied five thousand of His followers: and who, lest it might appear to the unbelieving and bard of heart to be an illusion, filled twelve capacious baskets with the fragments that remained?
CHURCH FATHERS: Against the Heathen, Book I (Arnobius)
No mention of fish.
Even Yahshua didn't mention the fish when he brought up that event just a few chapters later:
Matthew 16
5 Now when His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. 6 Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”
7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “
It is because we have taken no bread.”
8 But Jesus, being aware of
it, said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you d]">[
d]have brought no bread? 9 Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?
What is the leaven of the Pharisees? Hmm....It's when they add to the scripture.
Matthew 14:19
New King James Version
Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven,
He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes
Why didn't Yahshua bless the fish? Why didn't he give the fish to his disciples?
CHAPTER 20 -- FUTILITY OF THE ARGUMENTS ADDUCED TO DEMONSTRATE THE SUFFERINGS OF THE TWELFTH AEON, FROM THE PARABLES, THE TREACHERY OF JUDAS, AND THE PASSION OF OUR SAVIOUR.
CHAPTER 21 -- THE TWELVE APOSTLES WERE NOT A TYPE OF THE AEONS.
CHAPTER 22 -- THE THIRTY AEONS ARE NOT TYPIFIED BY THE FACT THAT CHRIST WAS BAPTIZED IN HIS THIRTIETH YEAR: HE DID NOT SUFFER IN THE TWELFTH MONTH AFTER HIS BAPTISM, BUT WAS MORE THAN FIFTY YEARS OLD WHEN HE DIED.
Irenaeus Against Heresies, Book 2, Chapters 18 to 35 | CARM.org has an error in their sources.
Here is what Irenaeus really wrote:
"4. But that this point is
true, that that number which is called
five, which agrees in no respect with their argument, and does not harmonize with their system, nor is suitable for a typical manifestation of the things in the Pleroma, [yet has a wide prevalence, ] will be
proved as follows from the
Scriptures. Soter is a name of five letters; Pater, too, contains five letters; Agape (
love), too, consists of five letters; and our Lord, after blessing the five loaves, fed with them five thousand men. Five
virgins Matthew 25:2, etc. were called wise by the Lord; and, in like manner, five were styled foolish."
CHURCH FATHERS: Against Heresies, II.24 (St. Irenaeus)
Irenaeus was not giving all the details, He was doing a brief summary of the ministry of Jesus off the top of his head.
"Afterwards He went up, the second time, to observe the festival day of the passover in Jerusalem; on which occasion He cured the paralytic man, who had lain beside the pool thirty-eight years, bidding him rise, take up his couch, and depart. Again, withdrawing from thence to the other side of the sea of Tiberias,
John 6:1, etc. He there seeing a great crowd had followed Him, fed all that multitude with five loaves of bread, and twelve baskets of fragments remained over and above. Then, when He had raised Lazarus from the dead, and plots were formed against Him by the
Pharisees, He withdrew to a city called Ephraim; and from that place, as it is written He came to Bethany six days before the passover,
John 11:54,
John 12:1 and going up from Bethany to Jerusalem,
He there ate the passover, and suffered on the day following."
CHURCH FATHERS: Against Heresies, II.22 (St. Irenaeus)
John 6 Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
Jesus Feeds More Than 5000
6 Later, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (also known as Lake Tiberias). 2 A great crowd of people followed him because they saw the miraculous signs he did in healing the sick. 3 Jesus went up on the side of the hill and sat there with his followers. 4 It was almost the time for the Jewish Passover festival.
5 Jesus looked up and saw a crowd of people coming toward him. He said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough bread for all these people to eat?” 6 He asked Philip this question to test him. Jesus already knew what he planned to do.
7 Philip answered, “We would all have to work a month to buy enough bread for each person here to have only a little piece!”
8 Another follower there was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter. Andrew said, 9 “Here is a boy with five loaves of barley bread and
two little fish. But that is not enough for so many people.”
10 Jesus said, “Tell everyone to sit down.” This was a place with a lot of grass, and about 5000 men sat down there. 11 Jesus took the loaves of bread and gave thanks for them. Then he gave them to the people who were waiting to eat.
He did the same with the fish. He gave them as much as they wanted.
12 They all had plenty to eat. When they finished, Jesus said to his followers, “Gather the pieces of
fish and bread that were not eaten. Don’t waste anything.” 13 So they gathered up the pieces that were left. The people had started eating with only five loaves of barley bread. But the followers filled twelve large baskets with the pieces of food that were left.
Bible Gateway passage: John 6 - Easy-to-Read Version