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| 35 By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. "This is a remote place," they said, "and it's already very late. | 35 By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. "This is a remote place," they said, "and it's already very late. |
| 36 Send the people away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat." | 36 Send the people away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat." |
| 37 But he answered, "You give them something to eat." They said to him, "That would take eight months of a man's wages ! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?" | 37 But he answered, "You give them something to eat." They said to him, "That would take eight months of a man's wages ! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?" |
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