Mark 6:32–44

Five Thousand are Fed

Matt. 14:13–21; Luke 9:11–17; John 6:1–14

^32fSo they departed to a deserted place in the boat by themselves.

³³But ⁶the multitudes saw them departing, and many ^gknew Him and ran there on foot from all the cities. They arrived before them and came together to Him. ^34hAnd Jesus, when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like ⁱsheep not having a shepherd. So ^jHe began to teach them many things. ^35kWhen the day was now far spent, His disciples came to Him and said, “This is a deserted place, and already the hour is late. ³⁶Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy themselves ⁷bread; for they have nothing to eat.”

³⁷But He answered and said to them, “You give them something to eat.”

And they said to Him, ^l“Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?”

³⁸But He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.”

And when they found out they said, ^m“Five, and two fish.”

³⁹Then He ⁿcommanded them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass. ⁴⁰So they sat down in ranks, in hundreds and in fifties. ⁴¹And when He had taken the five loaves and the two fish, He ^olooked up to heaven, ^pblessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and the two fish He divided among them all. ⁴²So they all ate and were filled. ⁴³And they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and of the fish. ⁴⁴Now those who had eaten the loaves were ⁸about five thousand men.