John 6:7
New International Version
Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

New Living Translation
Philip replied, “Even if we worked for months, we wouldn’t have enough money to feed them!”

English Standard Version
Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”

Berean Standard Bible
Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”

Berean Literal Bible
Philip answered Him, "Two hundred denarii worth of loaves are not sufficient for them, that each might receive one little piece."

King James Bible
Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

New King James Version
Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little.”

New American Standard Bible
Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not enough for them, for each to receive just a little!”

NASB 1995
Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little.”

NASB 1977
Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little.”

Legacy Standard Bible
Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, for everyone to receive a little.”

Amplified Bible
Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii (200 days’ wages) worth of bread is not enough for each one to receive even a little.”

Christian Standard Bible
Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

American Standard Version
Philip answered him, Two hundred shillings' worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Phillipus said to him: “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not enough, even if each of them takes a very little.”

Contemporary English Version
Philip answered, "Don't you know that it would take almost a year's wages just to buy only a little bread for each of these people?"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.

English Revised Version
Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Philip answered, "We would need about a year's wages to buy enough bread for each of them to have a piece."

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

International Standard Version
Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread isn't enough for each of them to have a little."

Literal Standard Version
Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little”;

Majority Standard Bible
Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”

New American Bible
Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little [bit].”

NET Bible
Philip replied, "Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little."

New Revised Standard Version
Philip answered him, “Six months’ wages would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little.”

New Heart English Bible
Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."

Webster's Bible Translation
Philip answered him, Two hundred penny-worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them make take a little:

Weymouth New Testament
"Seven pounds' worth of bread," replied Philip, "is not enough for them all to get even a scanty meal."

World English Bible
Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.”

Young's Literal Translation
Philip answered him, 'Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'

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Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
6But He was asking this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do. 7Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.” 8One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,…

Cross References
Matthew 18:28
But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay back what you owe me!'

Mark 6:37
But Jesus told them, "You give them something to eat." They asked Him, "Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?"

John 1:43
The next day Jesus decided to set out for Galilee. Finding Philip, He told him, "Follow Me."

John 1:44
Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.

John 1:45
Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law, the One the prophets foretold--Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

John 1:46
"Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Nathanael asked. "Come and see," said Philip.

John 1:48
"How do You know me?" Nathanael asked. Jesus replied, "Before Philip called you, I saw you under the fig tree."


Treasury of Scripture

Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

Two.

John 6:7
Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

John 6:6
And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

John 6:7
Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

John 6:6
And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do.

Numbers 11:21,22
And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they may eat a whole month…

2 Kings 4:43
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.

Mark 6:37
He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

pennyworth.

John 12:5
Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?

Matthew 18:28
But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.

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John 6
1. Jesus feeds five thousand men with five loaves and two fishes.
15. Thereupon the people would have made him king;
16. but withdrawing himself, he walks on the sea to his disciples;
26. reproves the people flocking after him, and all the fleshly hearers of his word;
32. declares himself to be the bread of life to believers.
66. Many disciples depart from him.
68. Peter confesses him.
70. Judas is a devil.














(7) Philip answered him.--The answer proves that Philip has not really learnt the lessons of the earlier teaching. The question does not suggest to him the true answer of divine sufficiency, but leads him to think of the human difficulty. He looks on the vast throng of people. At the lowest estimate, it would take the value of 200 denarii to feed them--in present money-value nearly 7; in actual labour-value nearly a workman's yearly wage. The denarius is the value of a day's work in the parable (Matthew 20:2 et seq.). In A.D. 14, on the accession of Tiberius, one of the causes of revolt in the Pannonian legions is the smallness of their pay, and one of their demands (Tacit. Ann. i. 26) is a penny a day. For Philip this large sum seems an impossibility. He states the difficulty, and leaves it.

Verse 7. - Philip took a calculating method of meeting the difficulty, and looked at the question as one which their entire resources were unable to solve. He did not so much as think of the "whence," or from what quarter the loaves could be procured, as how much money would be required to meet the ease. Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of loaves are not sufficient for them, that each one may take a little. The denarius was equal to about eightpence halfpenny of our money; so that the sum spoken of, probably representing the entire contents of their common purse, was only six pounds fifteen shillings, and was utterly insufficient for the purpose. The conversation preserved by Mark (Mark 6:35-37) cannot well be made part of this language of Philip, but rather follows when the short afternoon was coming on, and the long shadows indicated the near approach of darkness. Philip had told the other disciples of the Lord's question, and they had discussed the possible perils of the case and the intentions of the Lord. It is interesting to see, in Mark, that the same sum was mentioned as being insufficient for the needs of the great multitudes. John has not only abridged the narrative of the synoptists, but added a feature which is of interest, and shows how for some hours the disciples had meditated on what they fancied would be necessary, and had come to the somewhat unwelcome conclusion that they must sacrifice their entire stock of funds. The Lord had first of all made the suggestion. They now go to him, to beseech his influence to send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves something to eat. When the enigmatic words burst from his lips, "Give ye them to eat," the two hundred pennyworth of bread is once more referred to by the disciples as insufficient (Luke 9:12, 13; Matthew 14:15-17).

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Greek
Philip
Φίλιππος (Philippos)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5376: From philos and hippos; fond of horses; Philippus, the name of four Israelites.

answered,
Ἀπεκρίθη (Apekrithē)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak.

“Two hundred
Διακοσίων (Diakosiōn)
Adjective - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 1250: Two hundred. From dis and hekaton; two hundred.

denarii
δηναρίων (dēnariōn)
Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural
Strong's 1220: A denarius, a small Roman silver coin. Of Latin origin; a denarius.

would not [buy] enough
ἀρκοῦσιν (arkousin)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 714: To keep off, assist; I suffice; pass: To be satisfied. Apparently a primary verb; properly, to ward off, i.e. to avail.

bread
ἄρτοι (artoi)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 740: Bread, a loaf, food. From airo; bread or a loaf.

for
αὐτοῖς (autois)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

each {of them}
ἕκαστος (hekastos)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 1538: Each (of more than two), every one. As if a superlative of hekas; each or every.

to have
λάβῃ (labē)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 2983: (a) I receive, get, (b) I take, lay hold of.

a
τι (ti)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

small [piece].”
βραχύ (brachy)
Adjective - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1024: Short, little, few. Of uncertain affinity; short.


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