Now when evening came, His disciples came to Him, saying, "The place is deserted, and the hour is already late. Dismiss the crowds, that they may go to the villages and buy themselves food."

And they said to Him, "We do not have [anything] here except five loaves of bread and two fish."

And commanding the crowds to recline on the grass, taking the five loaves of bread and the two fish, looking up to heaven, He blessed, and breaking [them], He gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples [gave] to the crowds.

Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, apart from women and children.

And when it grew late, His disciples came to Him and said, "The place is deserted, and already the hour is late.

Dismiss them, so that they may go into the surrounding farms and villages and may buy themselves food; for they have nothing to eat."

But He said to them, "How many loaves do you have? Go and see." And when they found out they said, "Five, and two fish."

And they reclined in parties of hundreds and of fifties.

So they all ate and were filled.

Now those who had eaten the loaves were five thousand men.

After these things Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee, that is, of Tiberias.

Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread, that these [people] may eat?"

Philip answered Him, "Two hundred denarii [worth of] bread is not enough for them, that each of them might receive a little."

There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they for so many?"

And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were reclining; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wished.

Therefore they gathered [them] up, and they filled twelve baskets of fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.

Therefore Jesus, knowing that they were about to come and seize Him, that they might make Him king, withdrew to the mountain by Himself.

But He answered her not a word. And His disciples approached and urged Him, saying, "Send her away, for she cries out after us."

Now Jesus, having summoned His disciples, He said, "I have compassion on the crowd, because they have been remaining with Me three days, and they do not have anything to eat. And I do not desire to send them away hungry, lest they faint on the way."

They spoke also against God, and said, Will God be able to prepare a table in the wilderness?

Forasmuch as He struck the rock, and the waters flowed, and the torrents ran abundantly; will He be able also to give bread, or prepare a table for His people?

And I will make with David a covenant of peace, and I will utterly destroy evil beasts from off the land; and they shall dwell in the wilderness, and sleep in the forests.

I tended to you as a shepherd in the wilderness, in an uninhabited land.