37. But Jesus said, “You feed them.”“With what?” they asked. “We’d have to work for months to earn enough money to buy food for all these people!”
38. “How much bread do you have?” he asked. “Go and find out.”They came back and reported, “We have five loaves of bread and two fish.”
39. Then Jesus told the disciples to have the people sit down in groups on the green grass.
40. So they sat down in groups of fifty or a hundred.
41. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up toward heaven, and blessed them. Then, breaking the loaves into pieces, he kept giving the bread to the disciples so they could distribute it to the people. He also divided the fish for everyone to share.
42. They all ate as much as they wanted,