Mark 6:33-55

³³And the people saw them going, and a number of them, having knowledge who they were, went running there together on foot from all the towns, and got there before them.

³⁴And he got out, and saw a great mass of people, and he had pity on them, because they were like sheep without a keeper: and he gave them teaching about a number of things.

³⁵And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

³⁶Send them away, so that they may go into the country and small towns round about, and get some food for themselves.

³⁷But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

³⁸And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

³⁹And he made them all be seated in groups on the green grass.

⁴⁰And they were placed in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.

⁴¹And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them; and when the cakes were broken, he gave them to the disciples to put before the people; and he made division of the two fishes among them all.

⁴²And they all took of the food and had enough.

⁴³And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken bits and of the fishes.

⁴⁴And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.

⁴⁵And straight away he made his disciples get into the boat, and go before him to the other side to Beth-saida, while he himself sent the people away.

⁴⁶And after he had sent them away, he went up into a mountain for prayer.

⁴⁷And by evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he by himself on the land.

⁴⁸And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;

⁴⁹But they, when they saw him walking on the sea, took him for a spirit, and gave a loud cry:

⁵⁰For they all saw him, and were troubled. But straight away he said to them, Take heart, it is I, have no fear.

⁵¹And he went to them into the boat, and the wind went down, and they were full of wonder in themselves;

⁵²For it was not clear to them about the bread; but their hearts were hard.

⁵³And when they had gone across, they came to Gennesaret, and got their boat to land.

⁵⁴And when they had got out of the boat, the people quickly had news of him,

⁵⁵And went running through all the country round about, and took on their beds those who were ill, to where it was said that he was.