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Mark 6:37

But he replied, “ No, you yourselves give them something to eat!” They replied, “◄We could not buy enough bread to feed this crowd, even if we had as much money as a man earns by working 200 days!/How could we buy enough bread to feed this mob, even if we had as much money as a man earns by working 200 days?►” [RHQ]

Translation for Translators

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

36So send the people away in order that they may go to the surrounding farms and villages in order that they can buy for themselves something to eat!”

38But he replied to them, “How many loaves of bread do you have? Go and find out!” They went and found out and then they told him, “We have only five flat loaves and two cooked fish!”

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Cross References

Numbers 11:13Where can I get meat to feed all these people? They keep complaining to me, saying, ‘Give us some meat to eat!’

2 Kings 4:42One day a man from Baal-Shalishah town brought to Elisha a sack of freshly cut grain and 20 loaves of barley bread, made from the first grain that they harvested that year. Elisha said to his servant, “Give it to the group of prophets, so that they can eat it.”

Matthew 14:16But Jesus said to us, “They do not need to leave to get food. Instead, you yourselves give them something to eat!”

Mark 8:2“This is the third day that these people have been with me, and they have nothing left to eat, so now I feel very sorry for them.

John 6:4Then he looked up and saw a great crowd of people coming toward him.

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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