preach to the multitude. So He made it clear that He wanted to feed the multitude. He asked Philip where they might buy bread. John adds an editorial comment to stress the fact that Christ was sovereignly in control of these circumstances: “This He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do” (John 6:6). Philip did a quick accounting and determined that they had only two hundred denarii in their treasury. A denarius was a day’s pay for a common laborer, so two hundred denarii would be