NEW TESTAMENT

John 6:7

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Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.”

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A denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer, so 200 denarii would be between 6 and 7 month’s pay.

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