John 6:5-13

⁵He said to Philip, “Where will we buy food for all these people to eat?”

⁶He asked this only to find out if Philip believed what Jesus could do, because Jesus already knew what he himself was going to do.

⁷Philip replied to him, “ Even if we had the amount of money a man earns in eight months, that would not be enough to buy bread so that each person could have a little bit!”

⁸Another one of us disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's younger brother, said to Jesus,

⁹“There is a boy here who has five small barley loaves and two cooked fish. But ◄they will not help much among so many people!/what good will that do among so many people?► RHQ”

¹⁰Jesus said, “Tell the people to sit down!” There was plenty of grass there, so they all sat down comfortably. There were about five thousand men among the crowd .

¹¹Then Jesus took the small loaves and the fish and thanked God for them. Then he gave them to us, and we distributed the small loaves and the fish to all the people sitting on the ground. Because God caused the food to keep increasing, everyone ate as much as they wanted.

¹²When everyone had all the food they wanted, he said to us disciples, “Gather up the pieces that are left over. Do not let anything be wasted!”

¹³So we gathered up the pieces of the small loaves that were left over by those who had eaten. We filled twelve baskets with those pieces!