12 Late in the day, the twelve disciples came to him and said, "You should send the crowd away now so they can go to the villages and farms nearby and find a place to stay and food to eat—there’s nothing here where we are."

13 "You give them something to eat!" said Jesus.

"All we have here are five loaves and two fish—unless you want us to go and buy food for everyone," they said. 14 There were about five thousand men present.

"Sit them down in groups of about fifty," he told his disciples. 15 The disciples did so, and everybody sat down. 16 Jesus picked up the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed the food and broke it into pieces. He kept on giving the food to the disciples to share with the people. 17 Everybody ate until they were full, and then twelve baskets of leftovers were collected.