Mark 6:37
Good News Translation
"You yourselves give them something to eat," Jesus answered. They asked, "Do you want us to go and spend two hundred silver coins on bread in order to feed them?"

New Revised Standard Version
But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give it to them to eat?”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus replied, "You give them something to eat." But they asked him, "Don't you know it would take almost a year's wages to buy all of these people something to eat?"

New American Bible
He said to them in reply, “Give them some food yourselves.” But they said to him, “Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of food and give it to them to eat?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

give.

Mark 8:2,3 I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat. . . .

2 Kings 4:42-44 And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of God, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat. . . .

Matthew 14:16 But Jesus said to them, They have no need to go: give you them to eat.

Matthew 15:32 And Jesus called together his disciples, and said: I have compassion on the multitudes, because they continue with me now three days, and have not what to eat, and I will not send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

Luke 9:13 But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps, we should go and buy food for all this multitude.

John 6:4-10 Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand. . . .

Shall.

Numbers 11:13,21-23 Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat. . . .

2 Kings 7:2 Then one of the lords, upon whose hand the king leaned, answering the man of God, said: If the Lord should make flood-gates in heaven, can that possibly be which thou sayest? And he said: Thou shalt see it with thy eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.

Matthew 15:33 And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?

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

penny-worth.

18:28, marg.'

Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
36Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat. 37And 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. 38And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.…
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 6:36
Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat.

Mark 6:38
And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.

Luke 7:41
A certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty.

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

Mark 6:36
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