35 Late in the afternoon his disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. 36 Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.”

37 But Jesus said, “You feed them.”

“With what?” they asked. “We’d have to work for months to earn enough money[a] to buy food for all these people!”

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Footnotes

  1. 6:37 Greek It would take 200 denarii. A denarius was equivalent to a laborer’s full day’s wage.

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