John 6:2-11

²A large crowd was following him, for they'd seen his miracles of healing.

³Jesus went up a hill and sat down there with his disciples.

⁴The time for the Jewish festival of the Passover was approaching.

⁵When Jesus looked up, and saw a large crowd coming towards him, he asked Philip, “Where can we buy enough bread to feed all these people?”

⁶He only asked this to see how Philip would respond, because Jesus already knew what he was going to do.

⁷“Two hundred silver coins wouldn't buy enough bread to give everyone even just a little,” Philip replied.

⁸One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up.

⁹“There's a boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what good is that when there are so many people?”

¹⁰“Have everybody sit down,” Jesus said. There was plenty of grass there, so they all sat down, the men numbering around five thousand.

¹¹Jesus took the bread, gave thanks, and had it handed out to the people as they sat there. Then he did the same with the fishes, making sure the people had as much as they wanted.