New Revised Standard Version
The disciples said to him, “Where are we to get enough bread in the desert to feed so great a crowd?”

Contemporary English Version
His disciples said, "This place is like a desert. Where can we find enough food to feed such a crowd?"

New American Bible
The disciples said to him, “Where could we ever get enough bread in this deserted place to satisfy such a crowd?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?

And the disciples say unto him: Whence then should we have so many loaves in the desert, as to fill so great a multitude?

Whence.

Numbers 11:21,22 And Moses said: There are six hundred thousand footmen of this people, and sayest thou: I will give them flesh to eat a whole month? . . .

2 Kings 4:42-44 And a certain man came from Baalsalisa, bringing to the man of God, bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat. . . .

Mark 6:37 And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat.

Mark 8:4,5 And his disciples answered him: From whence can any one fill them here with bread in the wilderness? . . .

John 6:5-7 When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? . . .

to fill.

Matthew 14:15 And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now passed: send away the multitudes, that going into the towns, they may buy themselves victuals.

Luke 9:13 But he said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said: We have no more than five loaves and two fishes; unless perhaps, we should go and buy food for all this multitude.

John 6:8,9 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to him: . . .