Mark 6:37

But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

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In The King James Version

He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

In Context

36Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

38And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:13Where am I to get flesh to give to all this people? For they are weeping to me and saying, Give us flesh for our food.

2 Kings 4:42Now a man came from Baal-shalishah with an offering of first-fruits for the man of God, twenty barley cakes and garden fruit in his bag. And he said, Give these to the people for food.

Matthew 14:16But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.

Mark 8:2I have pity for these people because they have been with me now three days, and have no food;

John 6:4Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.

Matthew Henry on Mark 6:31-45

The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes. 30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. 31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. 33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent… Read the whole commentary →

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