7Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"


In Context

4 The Jewish Passover Feast was near.

5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"

6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

7 Philip answered him, "Eight months' wages would not buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"

8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up,

9 "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"

John 6:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not sufficient for them, that each may have some little portion.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7Philip answered him, Two hundred penny-worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them make take a little:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7Philip answered him, |Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little.|

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:7Philip answered him, 'Two hundred denaries' worth of loaves are not sufficient to them, that each of them may receive some little;'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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