Mark 6:30-41

³⁰Then the apostles gathered to Jesus and reported all to Him, both what they had done and what they had taught.

³¹Because so many were coming and going that they did not even have leisure to eat, He said to them, “Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest awhile.”

³²So they went away in the boat by themselves to a deserted place.

³³But many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and arrived before them, and came together to Him.

³⁴Well upon disembarking Jesus saw a large crowd and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and He began to teach them many things.

³⁵When it was late in the day, His disciples came to Him and said: “This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late.

³⁶Send them away so they may go to the surrounding farms and villages and buy themselves bread; for they have nothing to eat.”

³⁷But in reply He said to them, “You feed them!” They say to Him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and feed them?”

³⁸So He says to them: “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” When they knew they said, “Five, and two fish.”

³⁹Then He directed them all to recline in groups on the green grass.

⁴⁰So they reclined in ‘plots’ of hundreds and of fifties.

⁴¹And taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to His disciples to serve the people; He also divided the two fish among them all.