John 6:1-9

1 After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias, as it is also called).

2 A large crowd followed him, because they had seen his miracles of healing the sick.

3 Jesus went up a hill and sat down with his disciples.

4 The time for the Passover Festival was near.

5 Jesus looked around and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, so he asked Philip, "Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?

6 (He said this to test Philip; actually he already knew what he would do.)

7 Philip answered, "For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins to buy enough bread."

8 Another one of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, said,

9 "There is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough for all these people."

Footnotes

• [a]. silver coins: [A silver coin was the daily wage of a rural worker (see Mt 20.2).]