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Johannes 6:7
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
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, Numbers 11:22, 2 Kings 4:43, Mark 6:37
pennyworth: John 12:5, Matthew 18:28, *marg.
Reciprocal: Matthew 14:20 - were Mark 8:4 - From Mark 14:5 - pence John 6:9 - but
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Philip answered him,.... Very quick and short, and in a carnal and unbelieving way:
two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them. Two hundred pence, or "Roman denarii", which may be here meant, amount to six pounds five shillings of our money; and this sum is mentioned, because it might be the whole stock that was in the bag, or that Christ and his disciples had; or because this was a round sum, much in use among the Jews; :-. Or this may be said by Philip, to show how impracticable it was to provide for such a company; that supposing they had two hundred pence to lay out in this way; though where should they have that, he suggests? yet if they had it, as much bread as that would purchase would not be sufficient:
that everyone of them might take a little; it would be so far from giving them a meal, or proper refreshment, that everyone could not have a small bit to taste of, or in the least to stay or blunt his appetite: a penny, with the Jews, would buy as much bread as would serve ten men; so that two hundred pence would buy bread enough for two thousand men; but here were three thousand more, besides women and children, who could not have been provided for with such a sum of money.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 6:7. Two hundred pennyworth — This sum, rating the denarius at 7 3/4d., would amount to 6£. 9s. 2d. of our money, and appears to have been more than our Lord and all his disciples were worth of this world's goods. See the notes on Matthew 18:28.
