John 6:2-11

²A great crowd of people, however, followed him, because they saw the signs of his mission in his work among those who were sick.

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

⁴It was near the time of the Jewish Festival of the Passover.

⁵Looking up, and noticing that a great crowd was coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?”

⁶He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he meant to do.

⁷“Even if we spent a years' wages on bread,” answered Philip, “it would not be enough for each of them to have a little.”

⁸“There is a boy here,” said Andrew, another of his disciples, Simon Peter's brother,

⁹“Who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what is that for so many?”

¹⁰“Make the people sit down,” said Jesus. It was a grassy spot; so the people, who numbered about five thousand, sat down,

¹¹and then Jesus took the loaves, and, after saying the thanksgiving, distributed them to those who were sitting down; and the same with the fish, giving the people as much as they wanted.