Mark 6:37

But Jesus answered, “It is for you to give them something to eat.” “Are we to go and spend almost a year’s wages on bread,” they asked, “to give them 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 the people away, so that they may go to the farms and villages around and buy themselves something to eat.”

38“How many loaves have you?” he asked, “Go, and see.” When they had found out, they told him, “Five, and two fish.”

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Cross References

Matthew 14:16But Jesus said, “They need not go away, it is for you to give them something to eat.”

Mark 8:2“My heart is moved at the sight of all these people, for they have already been with me three days and they have nothing to eat;

John 6:4It was near the time of the Jewish Festival of the Passover.

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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