Bible Cross References
the five
Mark 6:38-44
38
So Jesus asked them, "How much bread do you have? Go and see." When they found out, they told him, "Five loaves and also two fish."
39
Jesus then told his disciples to make all the people divide into groups and sit down on the green grass.
40
So the people sat down in rows, in groups of a hundred and groups of fifty.
41
Then Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, and gave thanks to God. He broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
42
Everyone ate and had enough.
43
Then the disciples took up twelve baskets full of what was left of the bread and the fish.
44
The number of men who were fed was five thousand.
Matthew 14:17-21
17
"All we have here are five loaves and two fish," they replied.
18
"Then bring them here to me," Jesus said.
19
He ordered the people to sit down on the grass; then he took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, and gave thanks to God. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
20
Everyone ate and had enough. Then the disciples took up twelve baskets full of what was left over.
21
The number of men who ate was about five thousand, not counting the women and children.
Luke 9:12-17
12
When the sun was beginning to set, the twelve disciples came to him and said, "Send the people away so that they can go to the villages and farms around here and find food and lodging, because this is a lonely place."
13
But Jesus said to them, "You yourselves give them something to eat." They answered, "All we have are five loaves and two fish. Do you want us to go and buy food for this whole crowd?"
14
(There were about five thousand men there.) Jesus said to his disciples, "Make the people sit down in groups of about fifty each."
15
After the disciples had done so,
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Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up to heaven, thanked God for them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people.
17
They all ate and had enough, and the disciples took up twelve baskets of what was left over.
John 6:5-13
5
Jesus looked around 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.)
7
Philip answered, "For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins to buy enough bread."
8
Another one 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 five thousand men.
11
Jesus 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.
12
When they were all full, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces left over; let us not waste a bit."
13
So they gathered them all and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten.