Mark 6:37 “But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him,…”

Mark 6:37

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked Him, “Should we go out and spend two hundred denarii to give all of them bread to eat?”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

World English Bible

But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?”

American Standard Version

But he answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred shillings’ worth of bread, and give them to eat?

Geneva Bible 1599

But he answered, and said vnto them, Giue yee them to eate. And they said vnto him, Shall we goe, and buy two hundreth peny worth of bread, and giue them to eate?

Darby Translation

And he answering said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them to eat?

Young's Literal Translation

And he answering said to them, 'Give ye them to eat,' and they say to him, 'Having gone away, may we buy two hundred denaries' worth of loaves, and give to them to eat?'

Bible in Basic English

But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

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Cross references

“give”

2 Kings 4:42–44 Matthew 14:16 Luke 9:13 John 6:4–10 Mark 8:2 Mark 8:3

2 Kings 4:42–44 · BSB

Now a man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with a sack of twenty loaves of barley bread from the first ripe grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” said Elisha.

Matthew 14:16 · BSB

“They do not need to go away,” Jesus replied. “You give them something to eat.”

Luke 9:13 · BSB

But Jesus told them, “You give them something to eat.” “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

John 6:4–10 · BSB

Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.

Mark 8:2 · BSB

“I have compassion for this crowd, because they have already been with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

Mark 8:3 · BSB

If I send them home hungry, they will faint along the way. For some of them have come a great distance.”

“Shall”

Numbers 11:13 Numbers 11:21–23 2 Kings 7:2 Matthew 15:33 John 6:7

Numbers 11:13 · BSB

Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’

Numbers 11:21–23 · BSB

But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’

2 Kings 7:2 · BSB

But the officer on whose arm the king leaned answered the man of God, “Look, even if the LORD were to make windows in heaven, could this really happen?” “You will see it with your own eyes,” replied Elisha, “but you will…

Matthew 15:33 · BSB

The disciples replied, “Where in this desolate place could we find enough bread to feed such a large crowd?”

John 6:7 · BSB

Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

36Dismiss the crowd so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

38“Go and see how many loaves you have,” He told them. And after checking, they said, “Five—and two fish.”

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