Mark 6:37

And responding, he said to them, “Give them something to eat yourselves.” And they said to him, “Let us go out and buy bread for two hundred denarii, and then we will give them something to eat.”

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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 by going out to nearby villages and towns, they might buy provisions for themselves to eat.”

38And he said to them: “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”

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Cross References

Numbers 11:13From where would I obtain the flesh to give to so great a multitude? They weep against me, saying, ‘Give us flesh, so that we may eat.’

2 Kings 4:42Now a certain man arrived from Baal-Shalishah, carrying, for the man of God, bread from the first-fruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new grain in his satchel. But he said, “Give it to the people, so that they may eat.”

Matthew 14:16But Jesus said to them: “They have no need to go. Give them something to eat yourselves.”

Mark 8:2“I have compassion for the multitude, because, behold, they have persevered with me now for three days, and they do not have anything to eat.

John 6:4Now the Passover, the feast day 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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