This discourse between our Saviour and Philip is reported by none of the other evangelists, and probably was after that which they report of the other disciples motion to Christ to dismiss the people, because it was now towards evening. The number (as we shall find afterward) was five thousand, besides women and children; amongst whom five hundred pennyworth of bread was very little to be divided.
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John 6:7
7 Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.