30 Os apóstolos reuniram-se a Jesus e lhe relataram tudo o que tinham feito e ensinado.

31 Havia muita gente indo e vindo, a ponto de eles não terem tempo para comer. Jesus lhes disse: "Venham comigo para um lugar deserto e descansem um pouco".

32 Assim, eles se afastaram num barco para um lugar deserto.

33 Mas muitos dos que os viram retirar-se, tendo-os reconhecido, correram a pé de todas as cidades e chegaram lá antes deles.

34 Quando Jesus saiu do barco e viu uma grande multidão, teve compaixão deles, porque eram como ovelhas sem pastor. Então começou a ensinar-lhes muitas coisas.

35 Já era tarde e, por isso, os seus discípulos aproximaram-se dele e disseram: "Este é um lugar deserto, e já é tarde.

36 Manda embora o povo para que possa ir aos campos e povoados vizinhos comprar algo para comer".

37 Ele, porém, respondeu: "Dêem-lhes vocês algo para comer". Eles lhe disseram: "Isto exigiria duzentos denários! Devemos gastar tanto dinheiro em pão e dar-lhes de comer? "

38 Perguntou ele: "Quantos pães vocês têm? Verifiquem". Quando ficaram sabendo, disseram: "Cinco pães e dois peixes".

39 Então Jesus ordenou que fizessem todo o povo assentar-se em grupos na grama verde.

40 Assim, eles se assentaram em grupos de cem e de cinqüenta.

41 Tomando os cinco pães e os dois peixes e, olhando para o céu, deu graças e partiu os pães. Em seguida, entregou-os aos seus discípulos para que os servissem ao povo. E também dividiu os dois peixes entre todos eles.

42 Todos comeram e ficaram satisfeitos,

43 e os discípulos recolheram doze cestos cheios de pedaços de pão e de peixe.

44 Os que comeram foram cinco mil homens.

30 And the twelve came together to Jesus; and they gave him an account of all the things they had done, and all they had been teaching.

31 And he said to them, Come away by yourselves to a quiet place, and take a rest for a time. Because there were a great number coming and going, and they had no time even for food.

32 And they went away in the boat to a waste place by themselves.

33 And 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.

34 And 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.

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

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

37 But 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?

38 And 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.

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

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

41 And 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.

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

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

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