Mark 6:32-44

32 aThey went away in bthe boat to a secluded place by themselves.

Five Thousand Fed

33 The people saw them going, and many recognized them and ran there together on foot from all the cities, and got there ahead of them. 34When Jesus went
Lit out
ashore, He dsaw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because ethey were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things.
35When it was already quite late, His disciples came to Him and said,
Lit The
This place is desolate and it is already quite late;
36send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves
Lit what they may eat
something to eat.”
37But He answered them, You give them something to eat!” h And they said to Him, “Shall we go and spend two hundred
The denarius was equivalent to one day’s wage
,
jdenarii on bread and give them something to eat?”
38And He said to them, How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.” 39And He commanded them all to
Lit recline
sit down by groups on the green grass.
40They
Lit reclined
sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties.
41And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He mblessed the food and broke the loaves and He kept giving them to the disciples to set before them; and He divided up the two fish among them all. 42They all ate and were satisfied, 43and they picked up twelve full nbaskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish. 44There were ofive thousand men who ate the loaves.
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