Mark 6:38

38 et dicit eis quot panes habetis ite et videte et cum cognovissent dicunt quinque et duos pisces

Mark 6:38 Meaning and Commentary

Mark 6:38

And he saith unto them, how many loaves have ye?
&c.] This he said, not as ignorant, but as willing to try their faith yet more, and that the after miracle might be more manifest and illustrious:

go and see;
meaning, either that they should examine their own store, if they had any; or rather go and see what was to be had upon the spot, among the company, for money;

and when they knew, they say five loaves and two fishes:
when they had made inquiry what provisions there were, and the most that could be got at any rate, they tell him, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, particularly, that there was a boy among the multitude that had five barley loaves, and two small fishes; and, at the same time, suggests, that they were nothing for so great a company.

Mark 6:38 In-Context

36 dimitte illos ut euntes in proximas villas et vicos emant sibi cibos quos manducent

37 et respondens ait illis date illis manducare et dixerunt ei euntes emamus denariis ducentis panes et dabimus eis manducare

38 et dicit eis quot panes habetis ite et videte et cum cognovissent dicunt quinque et duos pisces

39 et praecepit illis ut accumbere facerent omnes secundum contubernia super viride faenum

40 et discubuerunt in partes per centenos et per quinquagenos