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John 6:7
John 6:7 is verse 7 of John chapter 6, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”
A denarius was customarily a day’s wage for a laborer; see Matthew 20:2.
King James Version
Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
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.”
A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer, so 200 denarii would be between 6 and 7 month’s pay.
Read in context
John 6:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?”
6 But He was asking this to test him, for He knew what He was about to do.
7 Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”
8 One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,
9 “Here is a boy with five barley loaves and two small fish. But what difference will these make among so many?”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 11:21But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
Numbers 11:22If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”
2 Kings 4:43But 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 and have some left over.’”
Mark 6:37But 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 12:5“Why wasn’t this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”
Matthew 18:28But 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!’