³⁴And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

³⁵And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past:

³⁶Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they may buy themselves meat to eat.

³⁷And 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.

³⁸And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.

³⁹And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

⁴⁰And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

⁴¹And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes: looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them all.

⁴²And they all did eat, and had their fill.

⁴³And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments, and of the fishes.

⁴⁴And they that did eat, were five thousand men.

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