Mark 6:30–44

^30aAnd the ^bapostles ^*gathered together with Jesus; and they reported to Him all that they had done and taught.

³¹And He ^*said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” (For there were many people coming and going, and ^athey did not even have time to eat.)

^32aAnd they went away in ^bthe boat to a desolate place by themselves.

Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

³³And the people saw them going, and many recognized them and ran there together on foot from all the cities, and got there ahead of them.

³⁴And when Jesus went ¹ashore, He ^asaw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because ^bthey were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.

³⁵And when it was already quite late, His disciples came to Him and began saying, “¹This place is desolate and it is already quite late;

³⁶send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves ¹something to eat.”

³⁷But He answered and said to them, “You give them something to eat!” ^aAnd they ^*said to Him, “Shall we go and spend two hundred ^1bdenarii on bread and give them something to eat?”

³⁸And He ^*said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they ^*said, “Five, and two fish.”

³⁹And He commanded them all to ¹sit down by ²groups on the green grass.

⁴⁰And they ¹sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties.

⁴¹And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He ^ablessed the food and broke the loaves. And He kept giving them to the disciples to set before them, and He divided up the two fish among them all.

⁴²And they all ate and were satisfied,

⁴³and they picked up twelve full ^abaskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish.

⁴⁴And there were ^afive thousand men who ate the loaves.