Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little."

 (i) They judged things by human values and by external standards. Their reaction in face of the claim of Jesus was to produce the fact that he was a carpenter's son and that they had seen him grow up in Nazareth. They were unable to understand how one who was a tradesman and who came from a poor home could possibly be a special messenger from God. 