Mark 6:34–44

³⁴When he went ashore, he saw a large crowd and had compassion^ba on them, because they were like sheep^bb without a shepherd. Then he began to teach them many things.

³⁵When it grew late, his disciples^bc approached him and said, “This place is deserted,^bd and it is already late. ³⁶Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages to buy themselves something to eat.”

³⁷“You give them something to eat,” he responded.

They said to him, “Should we go and buy two hundred denarii^C worth of bread and give them something to eat?”

³⁸He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.”

When they found out they said, “Five, and two fish.” ³⁹Then he instructed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. ⁴⁰So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. ⁴¹He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all. ⁴²Everyone ate and was satisfied.^{be 43}They picked up twelve baskets full of pieces of bread and fish. ⁴⁴Now those who had eaten the loaves were five thousand men.