John 6:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Mark 6:37 : 37 But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?
  • Num 11:21-22 : 21 Then Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred thousand men on foot; and you have said, I will give them flesh to be their food for a month. 22 Are flocks and herds to be put to death for them? or are all the fish in the sea to be got together so that they may be full?
  • 2 Kgs 4:43 : 43 But his servant said, How am I to put this before a hundred men? But he said, Give it to the people for food; for the Lord says, There will be food for them and some over.
  • Matt 18:28 : 28 But that servant went out, and meeting one of the other servants, who was in debt to him for one hundred pence, he took him by the throat, saying, Make payment of your debt.
  • John 12:5 : 5 Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Mark 6:35-38
    4 verses
    85%

    35And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

    36Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

    37But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

    38And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

  • John 6:5-6
    2 verses
    83%

    5Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

    6This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.

  • John 6:8-13
    6 verses
    83%

    8One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to Jesus,

    9There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

    10Jesus said, Let the people be seated. Now there was much grass in that place. And those seated on the grass were about five thousand.

    11Then Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had need of.

    12And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted.

    13So they took them up: twelve baskets full of broken bits of the five cakes which were over after the people had had enough.

  • Luke 9:12-14
    3 verses
    79%

    12And the day went on; and the twelve came to him and said, Send these people away so that they may go into the towns and the country round about and get resting-places and food for themselves, for we are in a waste place.

    13But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

    14For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them be seated in groups, about fifty to a group.

  • Mark 8:4-7
    4 verses
    78%

    4And his disciples said in answer, How will it be possible to get enough bread for these men here in a waste place?

    5And he put the question, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes.

    6And he made the people be seated on the earth: and he took the seven cakes and, having given praise, he gave the broken bread to his disciples to put before them; and they put it before the people.

    7And they had some small fishes; and blessing them he had them put before the people in the same way.

  • Matt 15:33-34
    2 verses
    77%

    33And the disciples say to him, How may we get enough bread in a waste place, to give food to such a number of people?

    34And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes.

  • Matt 14:15-20
    6 verses
    76%

    15And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.

    16But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.

    17And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.

    18And he said, Give them to me.

    19And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

    20And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.

  • Mark 6:41-44
    4 verses
    73%

    41And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them; and when the cakes were broken, he gave them to the disciples to put before the people; and he made division of the two fishes among them all.

    42And they all took of the food and had enough.

    43And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken bits and of the fishes.

    44And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.

  • Mark 8:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19When I made a division of the five cakes of bread among the five thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? They said to him, Twelve.

    20And when the seven among the four thousand, what number of baskets full of broken bits did you take up? And they said to him, Seven.

  • Matt 16:7-10
    4 verses
    72%

    7And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread.

    8And Jesus, seeing it, said, O you of little faith, why are you reasoning among yourselves, because you have no bread?

    9Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

    10Or the seven cakes of bread of the four thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

  • Matt 15:36-37
    2 verses
    72%

    36And he took the seven cakes of bread and the fishes; and having given praise, he gave the broken bread to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

    37And they all took food, and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits, seven baskets full.

  • Luke 9:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them, and when they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

    17And they all took the food and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits which were over, twelve baskets full.

  • John 12:22
    71%

    22Philip went and gave word of it to Andrew; and Andrew went with Philip to Jesus.

  • Matt 17:27
    71%

    27But, so that we may not be a cause of trouble to them, go to the sea, and let down a hook, and take the first fish which comes up; and in his mouth you will see a bit of money: take that, and give it to them for me and you.

  • John 14:8
    71%

    8Philip said to him, Lord, let us see the Father, and we have need of nothing more.

  • John 4:33
    70%

    33So the disciples said one to another, Did anyone give him food?

  • Mark 8:1
    70%

    1In those days again, when there was a great mass of people and they had no food, he made his disciples come to him and said to them,

  • Mark 8:16
    70%

    16And they said to one another, We have no bread.

  • John 12:5
    70%

    5Why was not this perfume traded for three hundred pence, and the money given to the poor?

  • John 6:26
    69%

    26Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

  • John 6:34
    69%

    34Ah, Lord, they said, give us that bread for ever!