John 6:7

7 Philip answered him, "Six months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little."

John 6:7 In-Context

5 When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?"
6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he was going to do.
7 Philip answered him, "Six months' wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little."
8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,
9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish. But what are they among so many people?"

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. Gk [Two hundred denarii]; the denarius was the usual day's wage for a laborer
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