I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat.

And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from afar.

And a man came from Baal Shalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and fresh heads of grain in his sack. And he said, Give it to the people, that they may eat.

So he set it before them; and they ate and had some left over, according to the Word of Jehovah.

But Jesus said to them, They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.

Then Jesus called His disciples to Himself and said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, that they not faint on the way.

But He said to them, You give them something to eat. And they said, We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.

Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.

But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He was about to do.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

And Jesus said, Make the people sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

Where would I get flesh to set before all these people? For they weep upon me, saying, Give us flesh, that we may eat.

And Moses said, The people whom I am among are six hundred thousand footmen; yet You have said, I will give them flesh, and they shall eat for a month of days.

And Jehovah said to Moses, Is the hand of Jehovah shortened? Now you shall see whether My word shall come to pass unto you or not.

So an officer on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God and said, Behold, if Jehovah would make windows in the heavens, could this thing be? And he said, Behold, you shall see it with your eyes, but you shall not eat of it.

And His disciples said to Him, Where could we get enough bread in the wilderness to feed such a great multitude?

Philip answered Him, Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive even a little.