Jesus then told his disciples to make all the people divide into groups and sit down on the green grass.

So the people sat down in rows, in groups of a hundred and groups of fifty.

"Then bring them here to me," Jesus said.

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.

So Jesus ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground.

Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks to God, broke them, and gave them to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the people.

(There were about five thousand men there.) Jesus said to his disciples, "Make the people sit down in groups of about fifty each."

After the disciples had done so,

How happy are those servants whose master finds them awake and ready when he returns! I tell you, he will take off his coat, have them sit down, and will wait on them.

Jesus' mother then told the servants, "Do whatever he tells you."

"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.

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.

Then the disciples took up twelve baskets full of what was left of the bread and the fish.

(SEE 9:12)

Then he took the seven loaves and the fish, gave thanks to God, broke them, and gave them to the disciples; and the disciples gave them to the people.

While they were eating, Jesus took a piece of bread, gave a prayer of thanks, broke it, and gave it to his disciples. "Take and eat it," he said; "this is my body."

He sat down to eat with them, took the bread, and said the blessing; then he broke the bread and gave it to them.

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.

Other boats, which were from Tiberias, came to shore near the place where the crowd had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Those who think highly of a certain day do so in honor of the Lord; those who will eat anything do so in honor of the Lord, because they give thanks to God for the food. Those who refuse to eat certain things do so in honor of the Lord, and they give thanks to God.

If I thank God for my food, why should anyone criticize me about food for which I give thanks?"

Well, whatever you do, whether you eat or drink, do it all for God's glory.

Everything you do or say, then, should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, as you give thanks through him to God the Father.

Such people teach that it is wrong to marry and to eat certain foods. But God created those foods to be eaten, after a prayer of thanks, by those who are believers and have come to know the truth.

because the word of God and the prayer make it acceptable to God.