Mark:6:30-44

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* The apostles gathered back to Jesus and reported to him all that they had done and all that they had taught . * He said to them , For there were many people coming and going , and they had no time even to eat . * So they put off in a boat for an uninhabited , solitary place . * But many saw them going and recognized them , and ran together by land from all the towns and got there before them . * When Jesus landed , he saw a great crowd , and he was filled with compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd , and he began and taught them many things . * By this time it was late in the day , and his disciples came to him and said , "This is an uninhabited place and the hour is already late . * Send them away so that they can go to the farms and villages around and buy themselves something to eat ." * But Jesus answered , They said , "Shall we go and buy two hundred shillings worth of bread and feed them ?" * He asked , When they had ascertained they said , "Five , and there are two fishes ." * Then he told them to have all the people recline in groups on the green grass . * They lay down in rows by hundreds and by fifties . * Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes , and looked up to heaven and blessed them , and broke them and gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people . The two fishes he also divided among all . * All ate and had abundance , * and they picked up twelve basketfuls of the broken pieces of the bread , besides portions of the fishes . * There were five thousand men who ate of the loaves .

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