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35 That evening the disciples came to Jesus and said, “This place is like a desert, and it's already late. 36 Let the crowds leave, so they can go to the farms and villages near here and buy something to eat.”

37 Jesus replied, “You give them something to eat.”

But they asked him, “Don't you know it would take almost a year's wages[a] to buy all of these people something to eat?”

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Footnotes

  1. 6.37 almost a year's wages: The Greek text has “200 silver coins.” Each coin was the average day's wage for a worker.

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