6After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias, as it is also called). ²A large crowd followed him, because they had seen his miracles of healing those who were ill. ³Jesus went up a hill and sat down with his disciples. ⁴The time for the Passover Festival was near. ⁵Jesus looked round and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, so he asked Philip, “Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?” ⁶(He said this to test Philip; actually he already knew what he would do.)

⁷Philip answered, “For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins^m to buy enough bread.”

⁸Another of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter’s brother, said, ⁹“There is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough for all these people.”

¹⁰“Make the people sit down,” Jesus told them. (There was a lot of grass there.) So all the people sat down; there were about 5,000 men. ¹¹Jesus took the bread, gave thanks to God, and distributed it to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, and they all had as much as they wanted. ¹²When they were all full, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces left over; let us not waste any.” ¹³So they gathered them all up and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten.

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John 6:11: Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted.

Footnotes

msilver coins: A silver coin was the daily wage of a rural worker (see Mt 20.2).