Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St Mark 6:37-53 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

37. And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat.

38. And he saith 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 that they should make them all sit down by companies upon 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: looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them all.

42. And they all did eat, and had their fill.

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

44. And they that did eat, were five thousand men.

45. And immediately he obliged his disciples to go up into the ship, that they might go before him over the water to Bethsaida, whilst he dismissed the people.

46. And when he had dismissed them, he went up to the mountain to pray.

47. And when it was late, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and himself alone on the land.

48. And seeing them labouring in rowing, (for the wind was against them,) and about the fourth watch of the night, he cometh to them walking upon the sea, and he would have passed by them.

49. But they seeing him walking upon the sea, thought it was an apparition, and they cried out.

50. For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he spoke with them, and said to them: Have a good heart, it is I, fear ye not.

51. And he went up to them into the ship, and the wind ceased: and they were far more astonished within themselves:

52. For they understood not concerning the loaves; for their heart was blinded.

53. And when they had passed over, they came into the land of Genezareth, and set to the shore.