Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

St Mark 6:40-48 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

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.