36 (A)Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” 37 But he answered them, (B)“You give them something to eat.” And (C)they said to him, (D)“Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii[a] worth of bread and give it to them to eat?” 38 And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, (E)“Five, and two fish.”

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  1. Mark 6:37 A denarius was a day's wage for a laborer

36 Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

37 But he answered, “You give them something to eat.”(A)

They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages[a]! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”

38 “How many loaves do you have?” he asked. “Go and see.”

When they found out, they said, “Five—and two fish.”(B)

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  1. Mark 6:37 Greek take two hundred denarii