Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?

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Bible References

Whence

Numbers 11:21
But Moses replied, “I’m in the middle of a people with 600,000 foot soldiers, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
2 Kings 4:42
A man from Baal-shalishah came to the man of God with his sack full of 20 loaves of barley bread from the first bread of the harvest. Elisha said, “Give it to the people to eat.”
Mark 6:37
“You give them something to eat,” He responded.

They said to Him, “Should we go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?”
Mark 8:4
His disciples answered Him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to fill these people?”
John 6:5
Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

To fill

Matthew 14:15
When evening came, the disciples approached Him and said, “This place is a wilderness, and it is already late. Send the crowds away so they can go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”
Luke 9:13
“You give them something to eat,” He told them.

“We have no more than five loaves and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.”
John 6:8
One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,

General references

Numbers 11:13
Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying to me: ‘Give us meat to eat!’
Matthew 14:17
“But we only have five loaves and two fish here,” they said to Him.

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