12 But now the day began to decline, and the twelve came to him and said. "Send away the crowd so that they may go into the villages and surrounding the country to lodge and buy provisions; for here we are on a solitary place."

13 "Do you yourselves give them food," he answered. "We have nothing," they replied "Except five loaves, and a couple fish, unless you mean for us to go and buy provisions for all the crowd."

14 (For there were about five thousand men.) "Make them sit down in table-companies, of about fifty each," he said to his disciples.

15 This they did, and made them all sit down.

16 Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up in heaven, he blessed them, broke them in pieces, and began to giving to his disciples to apportion among the crowd.

17 So they ate and were filled, all of them. And there was picked up that which remained over to them, of broken pieces, twelve basketfuls.