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Jesus himself already knew what he would do. But he asked Philip this question because he wanted to know what Philip would say. Philip answered, ‘A man could work for eight months to get 200 silver coins. But he still would not have enough money to buy bread for all these people. There would not be enough bread for each person here to have even a little piece.’ Then Andrew, another one of Jesus' disciples, spoke. He was Simon Peter's brother.

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

Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages[a] to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother,(A) spoke up,

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Footnotes

  1. John 6:7 Greek take two hundred denarii