1 Tämän jälkeen Jeesus lähti Galileanjärven eli Tiberiaanjärven toiselle puolen.

2 Häntä seurasi suuri väkijoukko, sillä ihmiset olivat nähneet tunnusteot, joita hän teki parantamalla sairaita.

3 Jeesus nousi vuorenrinteelle ja asettui opetuslapsineen sinne istumaan.

4 Juutalaisten pääsiäisjuhla oli lähellä.

6 Tämän hän sanoi koetellakseen Filippusta, sillä hän tiesi kyllä, mitä tekisi.

8 Silloin eräs opetuslapsi, Simon Pietarin veli Andreas, sanoi Jeesukselle:

9 Täällä on poika, jolla on viisi ohraleipää ja kaksi kalaa. Mutta miten ne riittäisivät noin suurelle joukolle?

11 Jeesus otti leivät, kiitti Jumalaa ja jakoi leivät syömään asettuneille. Samoin hän jakoi kalat, ja kaikki saivat niin paljon kuin halusivat.

13 He tekivät niin, ja viidestä ohraleivästä kertyi vielä kaksitoista täyttä korillista palasia, jotka olivat jääneet syömättä.

1 After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. 3 Jesus went up into the mountain, and he sat there with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Jesus therefore, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, "Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?" 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do.

7 Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may receive a little."

8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 "There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?"

10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was much grass in that place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. 11 Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were sitting down, likewise also of the fish as much as they desired. 12 When they were filled, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces which are left over, that nothing be lost." 13 So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves, which were left over by those who had eaten. 14 When therefore the people saw the sign which Jesus did, they said, "This is truly the prophet who comes into the world."