Mark 6:36

send them away Already earlier in the day the Lord had asked the Apostle Philip, Whence shall we buy bread that these may eat?and he, thinking of no other supplies save such as natural means could procure, had replied that two hundred pencewould not suffice to provide sustenance for such a number (John 6:5-7). Then He left this confession of inability to work in their minds, and it was now in the eventide that the Apostles came to Him with the proposition contained in this verse.