12 As the day was drawing to a close, the twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away to the neighboring villages and farms so they can rest and get some food, for we are here in a deserted place."

13 But he said to them,"You give them something to eat."They replied, "We have nothing more than five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all these people."

14 Now there were about 5,000 men. So he said to his disciples,"Have them sit down in groups of about fifty."

15 They did this and got all of them seated.

16 Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and kept giving them to the disciples to pass on to the crowd.

17 All of them ate and were filled. When they collected the leftover pieces, there were twelve baskets.