John 6:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred days’ wages[a] worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little [bit].”(A) 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves[b] and two fish; but what good are these for so many?”(B)
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- 6:7 Days’ wages: literally, “denarii”; a Roman denarius is a day’s wage in Mt 20:2.
- 6:9 Barley loaves: the food of the poor. There seems an allusion to the story of Elisha multiplying the barley bread in 2 Kgs 4:42–44.
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