Mark 6:37

But Jesus replied, “You give them something to eat.” “What? We'd need more than six month's pay to buy bread to feed all these people,” the disciples replied.

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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

36You should tell the people to go and buy themselves something to eat in the villages and countryside nearby.”

38“Well, how much bread do you have?” Jesus asked. “Go and see.” They went and checked, and told him, “Five loaves, and a couple of fish.”

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Cross References

Numbers 11:13Where am I supposed to get meat for all of them? They keep on complaining to me, ‘Get us some meat to eat!’

2 Kings 4:42A man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of firstfruits—the first grain of the year, along with twenty loaves of barley bread. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.

Matthew 14:16But Jesus told them, “They don't need to leave. You give them something to eat!”

Mark 8:2“I feel for the crowd because they have already stayed with me for three days and they have nothing to eat.

John 6:4The time for the Jewish festival of the Passover was approaching.

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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