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Philip answered, “Don't you know that it would take almost a year's wages[a] just to buy only a little bread for each of these people?”

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the disciples. He spoke up and said, “There is a boy here who has five small loaves[b] of barley bread and two fish. But what good is that with all these people?”

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Footnotes

  1. 6.7 almost a year's wages: The Greek text has “200 silver coins.” Each coin was worth the average day's wages for a worker.
  2. 6.9 small loaves: These would have been flat and round or in the shape of a bun.

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