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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.
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Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
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But he answered, “You give them something to eat.”They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages[a] ! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”