John 6:7 BSB — MannaFest

John 6:7

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

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 3 (444)

Feebly again does Philip advance, not to the power of Jesus to do all things, and that easily, but on hearing Whence shall we buy said to prove him, forthwith he catches at it, and looks at the means by money alone, not conceiving that the nature of the thing may be accomplished otherwise than by the common law, and that practised by all, to wit, prodigality of expenditure.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Philip answered him,.... Very quick and short, and in a carnal and unbelieving way: two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them. Two hundred pence, or "Roman denarii", which may be here meant, amount to six pounds five shillings of our money; and this sum is mentioned, because it might be the whole stock that was in the bag, or that Christ and his disciples had; or because this was a round sum, much in use among the Jews; See Gill on Mar 6:

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

(2.) See here the weakness of his faith in that word, " But what are they among so many? To offer this to such a multitude is but to mock them." Philip and he had not that actual consideration of the power of Christ (of which they had had such large experience) which they should have had.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: John (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1869)

These verses describe one of our Lord's most remarkable miracles. Of all the great works that He did, none was done so publicly as this, and before so many witnesses. Of all the miracles related in the Gospels, this is the only one which all the four Gospel-writers alike record. This fact alone (like the four times repeated account of the crucifixion and resurrection) is enough to show that it is a miracle demanding special attention. We have, for one thing, in this miracle, a lesson about Christ's almighty power.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀπεκρίθη	apekrithē	Answered	G611 →
αὐτῷ	autō	Him	G846 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
Φίλιππος·	Philippos	Philip;	G5376 →
διακοσίων	diakosiōn	Two hundred	G1250 →
δηναρίων	dēnariōn	denarii worth	G1220 →
ἄρτοι	artoi	of loaves	G740 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἀρκοῦσιν	arkousin	are sufficient	G714 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	for them	G846 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
ἕκαστος	hekastos	each	G1538 →
βραχύ	brachu	little [piece]	G1024 →
τι	ti	one	G5100 →
λάβῃ.¶	labē	may receive.	G2983 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Kings 4:43
But his servant asked, “How am I to set twenty loaves before a hundred men?” “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha, “for this is what the LORD says: ‘They will eat…
leads to
- Luke 9:13
  But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 14:20
  They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
- John 6:9
  “Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”
Through
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?”
leads to
- 2 Kings 4:42–44
  Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.
- Mark 8:2–3
  “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.
- Matthew 14:16
  “They do not need to go away,” Jesus replied. “You give them something to eat.”
- Matthew 15:32–33
  Then Jesus called His disciples to Him and said, “I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat. I do not want to…
Through
John 12:5
“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
leads to
- Luke 12:33
  Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.