diff --git a/src/applications/paste/query/PhabricatorPasteSearchEngine.php b/src/applications/paste/query/PhabricatorPasteSearchEngine.php
--- a/src/applications/paste/query/PhabricatorPasteSearchEngine.php
+++ b/src/applications/paste/query/PhabricatorPasteSearchEngine.php
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 
   public function newQuery() {
     return id(new PhabricatorPasteQuery())
+      ->needContent(true)
       ->needSnippets(true);
   }
 
@@ -166,7 +167,11 @@
         $preview);
 
       $created = phabricator_datetime($paste->getDateCreated(), $viewer);
-      $line_count = count($lines);
+      // Get all of the file contents so we can correctly
+      // show the number of lines in the file since getSnippet
+      // limits the max number of lines to five.
+      $full_lines = phutil_split_lines($paste->getContent());
+      $line_count = count($full_lines);
       $line_count = pht(
         '%s Line(s)',
         new PhutilNumber($line_count));