Mark 6:30-41

³⁰When the apostles came back to Jesus, they told him all that they had done and all that they had taught.

³¹“Come by yourselves privately to some lonely spot,” he said, “and rest for a while” — for there were so many people coming and going that they had not time even to eat.

³²So they set off privately in their boat for a lonely spot.

³³Many people saw them going, and recognized them, and from all the towns they flocked together to the place on foot, and got there before them.

³⁴On getting out of the boat, Jesus saw a great crowd, and his heart was moved at the sight of them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

³⁵When it grew late, his disciples came up to him, and said, “This is a lonely spot, and it is already late.

³⁶Send the people away, so that they may go to the farms and villages around and buy themselves something to eat.”

³⁷But Jesus answered, “It is for you to give them something to eat.” “Are we to go and spend almost a year's wages on bread,” they asked, “to give them to eat?”

³⁸“How many loaves have you?” he asked; “Go, and see.” When they had found out, they told him, “Five, and two fish.”

³⁹Jesus directed them to make all the people take their seats on the green grass, in parties;

⁴⁰and they sat down in groups — in hundreds, and in fifties.

⁴¹Taking the five loaves and the two fish, Jesus looked up to heaven, and said the blessing; he broke the loaves into pieces, and gave them to his disciples for them to serve out to the people, and he divided the two fish also among them all.