Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 6:7

"Philip answered him, Two hundred shillings` worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little." — John 6:7 (ASV)

Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

Two hundred pennyworth must have seemed an enormous amount to poor Philip, for all Christ's disciples had made themselves poor by following him. The bag that Judas carried probably scarcely ever had as much as that in it. If it were all spent, it would not go far towards feeding five thousand men, besides the women and children.

Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.

That is our way. When our faith is little, we begin calculating the pennyworths that are needed, and we make them out to be so much more than we possess or can possibly scrape together. That is not faith; it is reason—poor, dim, shallow reason, which forgets the Infinite and begins to calculate its own limited and insufficient forces.