³⁵ And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

¹⁵ And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.

¹⁶ But Jesus said to them, There is no need for them to go away; give them food yourselves.

¹⁷ And they say to him, We have here but five cakes of bread and two fishes.

¹⁸ And he said, Give them to me.

¹⁹ And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.

²⁰ And they all took of the food and had enough: and they took up twelve baskets full of broken bits which were not used.

²¹ And those who had food were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.

¹² And the day went on; and the twelve came to him and said, Send these people away so that they may go into the towns and the country round about and get resting-places and food for themselves, for we are in a waste place.

¹³ But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.

¹⁴ For there were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them be seated in groups, about fifty to a group.

¹⁵ And they did so, and made them all be seated.

¹⁶ 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 they had been broken, he gave them to the disciples to give to the people.

¹⁷ And they all took the food and had enough; and they took up of the broken bits which were over, twelve baskets full.

⁵ Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

⁶ This he said, testing him: for he had no doubt what he himself would do.

⁷ Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to Jesus,

⁹ There is a boy here with five barley cakes and two fishes: but what is that among such a number?

¹⁰ Jesus said, Let the people be seated. Now there was much grass in that place. And those seated on the grass were about five thousand.

¹¹ Then Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had need of.

¹² And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted.

¹³ So they took them up: twelve baskets full of broken bits of the five cakes which were over after the people had had enough.

¹⁴ And when the people saw the sign which he had done, they said, Truly, this is the prophet who is to come into the world.

¹⁵ Now when Jesus saw that the people were about to come and take him by force to make him a king, he went away again up the mountain by himself.