1 Algum tempo depois Jesus partiu para a outra margem do mar da Galiléia ( ou seja, do mar de Tiberíades ),

2 e grande multidão continuava a segui-lo, porque vira os sinais miraculosos que ele tinha realizado nos doentes.

3 Então Jesus subiu ao monte e sentou-se com os seus discípulos.

4 Estava próxima a festa judaica da Páscoa.

5 Levantando os olhos e vendo uma grande multidão que se aproximava, Jesus disse a Filipe: "Onde compraremos pão para esse povo comer? "

6 Fez essa pergunta apenas para pô-lo à prova, pois já tinha em mente o que ia fazer.

7 Filipe lhe respondeu: "Duzentos denários não comprariam pão suficiente para que cada um recebesse um pedaço! "

8 Outro discípulo, André, irmão de Simão Pedro, tomou a palavra:

9 "Aqui está um rapaz com cinco pães de cevada e dois peixinhos, mas o que é isto para tanta gente? "

10 Disse Jesus: "Mandem o povo assentar-se". Havia muita grama naquele lugar, e todos se assentaram. Eram cerca de cinco mil homens.

11 Então Jesus tomou os pães, deu graças e os repartiu entre os que estavam assentados, tanto quanto queriam; e fez o mesmo com os peixes.

12 Depois que todos receberam o suficiente para comer, disse aos seus discípulos: "Ajuntem os pedaços que sobraram. Que nada seja desperdiçado".

13 Então eles os ajuntaram e encheram doze cestos com os pedaços dos cinco pães de cevada deixados por aqueles que tinham comido.

14 Depois de ver o sinal miraculoso que Jesus tinha realizado, o povo começou a dizer: "Sem dúvida este é o Profeta que devia vir ao mundo".

1 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias),

2 and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick.

3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples.

4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near.

5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"

6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

7 Philip answered him, "It would take more than half a year's wages "to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"

8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up,

9 "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"

10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there).

11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted."

13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

14 After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world."