Mark 6:36-37

6:36 Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.” 6:37 But he answered them, ¹  “You ²  give them something to eat.” And they said, “Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins ³  and give it to them to eat?”

Mark 6:52

6:52 because they did not understand about the loaves, but their hearts were hardened.

Numbers 11:21-23

11:21 Moses said, “The people around me ⁴  are 600,000 on foot; ⁵  but you say, ‘I will give them meat, ⁶  that they may eat ⁷  for a whole month.’ 11:22 Would they have enough if the flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? If all the fish of the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?” 11:23 And the Lord said to Moses, “Is the Lord’s hand shortened? ⁸  Now you will see whether my word to you will come true ⁹  or not!”

Numbers 11:2

11:2 When the people cried to Moses, he ¹⁰  prayed to the Lord, and the fire died out. ¹¹ 

Numbers 4:42-44

4:42 Those numbered from the families of the Merarites, by their families, by their clans, 4:43 from thirty years old and upward to fifty years old, everyone who entered the company for the work in the tent of meeting – 4:44 those of them numbered by their families were 3,200.

Numbers 7:2

7:2 Then the leaders of Israel, the heads of their clans, ¹²  made an offering. They were the leaders of the tribes; they were the ones who had been supervising ¹³  the numbering.

Psalms 78:19-20

78:19 They insulted God, saying, ¹⁴ 

“Is God really able to give us food ¹⁵  in the wilderness?

78:20 Yes, ¹⁶  he struck a rock and water flowed out,

streams gushed forth.

But can he also give us food?

Will he provide meat for his people?”

Matthew 15:33

15:33 The disciples said to him, “Where can we get enough bread in this desolate place to satisfy so great a crowd?”

John 6:7-9

6:7 Philip replied, ¹⁷  “Two hundred silver coins worth ¹⁸  of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.” 6:8 One of Jesus’ disciples, ¹⁹  Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 6:9 “Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good ²⁰  are these for so many people?”

[6:37]  ¹ tn Grk “answering, he said to them.” The participle ἀποκριθείς (apokriqeis) is redundant, but the syntax of the sentence has been changed for clarity.

[6:37]  ² tn Here the pronoun ὑμεῖς (Jumeis) is used, making “you” in the translation emphatic.

[6:37]  ³ sn The silver coin referred to here is the denarius. A denarius, inscribed with a picture of Tiberius Caesar, was worth approximately one day’s wage for a laborer. Two hundred denarii was thus approximately equal to eight months’ wages. The disciples did not have the resources in their possession to feed the large crowd, so Jesus’ request is his way of causing them to trust him as part of their growth in discipleship.

[11:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “the people who I am in their midst,” i.e., among whom I am.

[11:21]  ⁵ tn The Hebrew sentence stresses the number. The sentence begins “600,000….”

[11:21]  ⁶ tn The word order places the object first here: “Meat I will give them.” This adds to the contrast between the number and the statement of the Lord.

[11:21]  ⁷ tn The verb is the perfect tense with a vav (ו) consecutive, carrying the sequence from the preceding imperfect tense. However, this verb may be subordinated to the preceding to express a purpose clause.

[11:23]  ⁸ sn This anthropomorphic expression concerns the power of God. The “hand of the Lord” is idiomatic for his power, what he is able to do. The question is rhetorical; it is affirming that his hand is not shortened, i.e., that his power is not limited. Moses should have known this, and so this is a rebuke for him at this point. God had provided the manna, among all the other powerful acts they had witnessed. Meat would be no problem. But the lack of faith by the people was infectious.

[11:23]  ⁹ tn Or “will happen” (TEV); KJV “shall come to pass unto thee.”

[11:2]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “Moses.”

[11:2]  ¹¹ sn Here is the pattern that will become in the wilderness experience so common – the complaining turns to a cry to Moses, which is then interpreted as a prayer to the Lord, and there is healing. The sequence presents a symbolic lesson, an illustration of the intercession of the Holy Spirit. The NT will say that in times of suffering Christians do not know how to pray, but the Spirit intercedes for them, changing their cries into the proper prayers (Rom 8).

[7:2]  ¹² tn Heb “the house of their fathers.”

[7:2]  ¹³ tn The form is the Qal active participle from the verb “to stand” (עָמַד, ’amad). The form describes these leaders as “the ones standing over [the ones numbered].” The expression, along with the clear indication of the first census in chapter 1, shows that this was a supervisory capacity.

[78:19]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “they spoke against God, they said.”

[78:19]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “to arrange a table [for food].”

[78:20]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “look.”

[6:7]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “Philip answered him.”

[6:7]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “two hundred denarii.” The denarius was a silver coin worth about a day’s wage for a laborer; this would be an amount worth about eight months’ pay.

[6:8]  ¹⁹ tn Grk “one of his disciples.”

[6:9]  ²⁰ tn Grk “but what are these”; the word “good” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.