30 Os apóstolos voltaram à presença de Jesus e lhe relataram tudo o que tinham feito e ensinado. 31 E ele lhes disse:

— Venham repousar um pouco, à parte, num lugar deserto.

Isto porque eles não tinham tempo nem para comer, visto serem muitos os que iam e vinham. 32 Então foram de barco para um lugar deserto, à parte. 33 Muitos, porém, os viram sair e, reconhecendo-os, correram para lá, a pé, de todas as cidades, e chegaram antes deles. 34 Ao desembarcar, Jesus viu uma grande multidão e compadeceu-se dela, porque eram como ovelhas que não têm pastor. E começou a ensinar-lhes muitas coisas.

35 Como já era bastante tarde, os discípulos se aproximaram de Jesus e disseram:

— Este lugar é deserto, e já é bastante tarde. 36 Mande essas pessoas embora, para que, indo pelos campos ao redor e pelas aldeias, comprem para si o que comer.

37 Jesus, porém, lhes disse:

— Deem vocês mesmos de comer a eles.

Mas eles disseram:

— Iremos comprar duzentos denários de pão para lhes dar de comer?

38 E Jesus lhes disse:

— Quantos pães vocês têm? Tratem de descobrir!

Eles foram se informar e responderam:

— Cinco pães e dois peixes.

39 Então Jesus lhes ordenou que todos se assentassem, em grupos, sobre a relva verde. 40 E eles o fizeram, repartindo-se em grupos de cem e de cinquenta. 41 Jesus, pegando os cinco pães e os dois peixes, erguendo os olhos para o céu, os abençoou. Depois partiu os pães e os deu aos seus discípulos para que os distribuíssem. E também repartiu os dois peixes entre todos. 42 Todos comeram e se fartaram, 43 e ainda recolheram doze cestos cheios de pedaços de pão e de peixe. 44 Os que comeram os pães eram cinco mil homens.

30 And the apostles gathered themselves together to Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.

31 And he said to them, Come you yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.

32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.

33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and preceded them, and came together to him.

34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:

36 Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

37 He answered and said to them, Give you them to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

38 He said to them, How many loaves have you? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.

39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies on the green grass.

40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

42 And they did all eat, and were filled.

43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.

44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.