35 By this time it was late; so His disciples came to Him, and said, »This is a lonely place, and the hour is now late:
36 send them away that they may go to the farms and villages near here and buy themselves something to eat.«
37 »Give them food yourselves,« He replied. »Are we,« they asked, to go and buy two hundred shillings' worth of bread and give them food?«
38 »How many loaves have you?« He inquired; »go and see.« So they found out, and said, »Five; and a couple of fish.«
39 So He directed them to make all sit down in companies on the green grass.
40 And they sat down in rows of hundreds and of fifties.
41 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and lifting His eyes to Heaven He blessed the food. Then He broke the loaves into portions which He went on handing to the disciples to distribute; giving pieces also of the two fish to them all.
42 All ate and were fully satisfied.
43 And they carried away broken portions enough to fill twelve baskets, besides pieces of the fish.
44 Those who ate the bread were 5,000 adult men.