John 6:7
Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece.”
Note A denarius was customarily a day’s wage for a laborer; see Matthew 20:2.
Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little.”
Note 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.
Philip answered him, Two hundred shillings’ worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- Two
- This sum, rating the denarius at 7 ®d., would amount to 6£. 5s.: or, reckoning the denarius, with some at 7 3/4d., it would amount to 6£. 9s. 2d. of our money; which appears to have been more than our Lord and all his disciples were worth of this world's goods.
- Numbers 11:21, 22; 2 Kings 4:43; Mark 6:37
- pennyworth
- John 12:5; Matthew 18:28