John 6:7
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."

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

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].”

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Two.

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

?d., would amount to

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

?.

5s.: or, reckoning the denarius, with some at

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

3/4d., it would amount to

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

?.

9s.

2d. of our money; which appears to have been more than our Lord and all his disciples were worth of this world's goods.

Numbers 11:21,22 And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month? . . .

2 Kings 4:43 And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.

Mark 6:37 And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will 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 when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow-servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, he throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest.

*marg:

Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
6And this he said to try him: for he himself knew what he would do. 7Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one may take a little. 8One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to him:…
Cross References
Matthew 18:28
But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow-servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, he throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest.

Mark 6:37
And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat.

John 1:43
On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee: and he findeth Philip, And Jesus saith to him: follow me.

John 1:44
Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

John 1:45
Philip findeth Nathanael and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.

John 1:46
And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see.

John 1:48
Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

John 6:6
Top of Page
Top of Page