The people were so eager to

hear Jesus, that they hadn't

taken time to bring food

along on their journey.

As the evening drew near the disciples were

becoming concerned of the crowd becoming

faint from hunger. They were a long ways

from food of any kind.

Jesus turned to Philip, one of His disciples,

and said to him, "Whence shall we buy bread,

that these may eat?" (John 6:5) He was

figuring what it would cost to feed the people

when Jesus asked him, he said, "Two hundred

pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them,

that every one of them may take a little."

John 6:7 It would be same as a fair day's wage.