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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?”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 37. For two hundred pence. See Matthew 18:28. The apostles seem to speak these words ironically, to signify that they had not so much money as could procure a mouthful for each of them. Witham.
200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer.
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