John 6:5
Good News Translation
Jesus looked around and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, so he asked Philip, "Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?" (

New Revised Standard Version
When he looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?”

Contemporary English Version
When Jesus saw the large crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where will we get enough food to feed all these people?"

New American Bible
When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

saw.

John 4:35 Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries. For they are white already to harvest.

Matthew 14:14,15 And he coming forth saw a great multitude, and had compassion on them, and healed their sick. . . .

Mark 6:34,35 And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. . . .

Luke 9:12 Now the day began to decline. And the twelve came and said to him: Send away the multitude, that, going into the towns and villages round about, they may lodge and get victuals; for we are here in a desert place.

Whence.

Matthew 15:33 And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?

Mark 8:2-4 I have compassion on the multitude, for behold they have now been with me three days and have nothing to eat. . . .

Luke 9:13 But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps, we should go and buy food for all this multitude.

Context
The Feeding of the Five Thousand
4Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand. 5When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? 6And this he said to try him: for he himself knew what he would do.…
Cross References
Numbers 11:13
Whence should I have flesh to give to so great a multitude? They weep against me, saying: Give us flesh that we may eat.

Mark 6:32
And going up into a ship, they went into a desert place apart.

Luke 9:10
And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all they had done. And taking them, he went aside into a desert place, apart, which belongeth to Bethsaida.

John 1:43
On the following day, he would go forth into Galilee: and he findeth Philip, And Jesus saith to him: follow me.

John 1:44
Now Philip was of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter.

John 1:45
Philip findeth Nathanael and saith to him: We have found him of whom Moses, in the law and the prophets did write, Jesus the son of Joseph of Nazareth.

John 1:46
And Nathanael said to him: Can any thing of good come from Nazareth? Philip saith to him: Come and see.

John 1:48
Nathanael saith to him: Whence knowest thou me? Jesus answered and said to him: Before that Philip called thee, when thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

John 6:4
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