²⁹Moving on from there,^u Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee.^v He went up on a mountain and sat there, ³⁰and large crowds came to him, including the lame, the blind, the crippled, those unable to speak, and many others. They put them at his feet, and he healed them. ³¹So the crowd was amazed when they saw those unable to speak talking, the crippled restored, the lame walking, and the blind seeing,^w and they gave glory to the God of Israel.

FEEDING OF THE FOUR THOUSAND

³²Jesus called his disciples and said,^x “I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry, otherwise they might collapse on the way.”

³³The disciples said to him, “Where could we get enough bread in this desolate place^y to feed such a crowd?”

³⁴“How many loaves do you have?” Jesus asked them.

“Seven,” they said, “and a few small fish.”

³⁵After commanding the crowd to sit down on the ground, ³⁶he took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks, broke them, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.^z ³⁷They all ate and were satisfied. They collected the leftover pieces—seven large baskets full. ³⁸Now there were four thousand men who had eaten, besides women and children.

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Cross references

u Mk 7:31–37
v Mt 9:8; 18:8; Mk 9:43
w Is 29:23; Lk 1:68; Ac 13:17
x Mt 14:14–21; Mk 8:1–10
y Mk 8:4; 2Co 11:26; Heb 11:38
z Mt 26:27; Lk 22:17; Jn 6:11,23; Ac 27:35; Rm 14:6; 1Co 10:30