Mark:6:32-44

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* So they sailed away privately to a solitary place . * However , many saw them going , and recognized them , and ran together by land from all the neighboring towns , and arrived there first . * So when Jesus landed he saw a vast multitude , and he was moved with compassion for them , because they were like sheep without a shepherd , and he began to teach them many things . * Then when the day was now far spent , his disciples came to him and said . "This place is desert , and the day is now far spent . * Send the people away so that they may go to the farms and villages about here , and buy themselves something to eat ." * In answer he said to them , "You yourselves are to give them food ." "Are we to go and buy fifty dollars worth of bread ," they said , "and give them food ?" * "How many loaves have you ?" he answered . "Go and see ." When they had found out , they said , "Five , and two fishes ." * Then he directed them to make all sit down by companies on the green grass . * And they sat down like beds in a garden , by hundreds and by fifties . * Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes , and looking up to heaven he blessed , broke the loaves in pieces , and kept giving to the disciples to distribute . * The two fish also he divided to them all . * All ate and had enough ; and they carried away broken fragments of bread and of fish , enough to fill twelve baskets . * Those who ate the bread were five thousand adult men .

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