^{37 Ref} But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?

^{38 Ref} And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.

^{39 Ref} And he made them all be seated in groups on the green grass.

^{40 Ref} And they were placed in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.

^{41 Ref} And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them; and when the cakes were broken, he gave them to the disciples to put before the people; and he made division of the two fishes among them all.

^{42 Ref} And they all took of the food and had enough.

^{43 Ref} And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken bits and of the fishes.

⁴⁴ And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.

^{37 Ref} He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

^{38 Ref} He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.

^{39 Ref} And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.

^{40 Ref} And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

^{41 Ref} And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.

^{42 Ref} And they did all eat, and were filled.

^{43 Ref} And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.

⁴⁴ And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.