John 6:1–13

¹After these things Jesus went away beyond the sea of Galilee, or of Tiberias, ²and a great crowd followed him, because they saw the signs which he wrought upon the sick. ³And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there sat with his disciples: ⁴but the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. ⁵Jesus then, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great crowd is coming to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these may eat? ⁶But this he said trying him, for he knew what he was going to do. ⁷Philip answered him, Loaves for two hundred denarii are not sufficient for them, that each may have some little portion. ⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, says to him, ⁹There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fishes; but this, what is it for so many? ¹⁰And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place: the men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand. ¹¹And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, distributed them to those that were set down; and in like manner of the small fishes as much as they would. ¹²And when they had been filled, he says to his disciples, Gather together the fragments which are over and above, that nothing may be lost. ¹³They gathered them therefore together, and filled twelve hand-baskets full of fragments of the five barley loaves, which were over and above to those that had eaten.