30 Or gli apostoli, essendosi raccolti presso Gesù gli riferirono tutto quello che avean fatto e insegnato.

31 Ed egli disse loro: Venitevene ora in disparte, in luogo solitario, e riposatevi un po. Difatti, era tanta la gente che andava e veniva, che essi non aveano neppur tempo di mangiare.

32 Partirono dunque nella barca per andare in un luogo solitario in disparte.

33 E molti li videro partire e li riconobbero; e da tutte le città accorsero là a piedi e vi giunsero prima di loro.

34 E come Gesù fu sbarcato, vide una gran moltitudine e nebbe compassione, perché erano come pecore che non hanno pastore; e si mise ad insegnar loro molte cose.

35 Ed essendo già tardi, i discepoli gli saccostarono e gli dissero: Questo luogo è deserto ed è già tardi;

36 licenziali, affinché vadano per le campagne e per i villaggi dintorno a comprarsi qualcosa da mangiare.

37 Ma egli rispose loro: Date lor voi da mangiare. Ed essi a lui: Andremo noi a comprare per dugento danari di pane e daremo loro da mangiare?

38 Ed egli domandò loro: Quanti pani avete? andate a vedere. Ed essi, accertatisi, risposero: Cinque, e due pesci.

39 Allora egli comandò loro di farli accomodar tutti a brigate sullerba verde;

40 e si assisero per gruppi di cento e di cinquanta.

41 Poi Gesù prese i cinque pani e i due pesci, e levati gli occhi al cielo, benedisse e spezzò i pani, e li dava ai discepoli, affinché li mettessero dinanzi alla gente; e i due pesci spartì pure fra tutti.

42 E tutti mangiarono e furon sazi;

43 e si portaron via dodici ceste piene di pezzi di pane, ed anche i resti dei pesci.

44 E quelli che avean mangiato i pani erano cinquemila uomini.

30 And the apostles are gathered together to Jesus. And they related to him all things, {both} what they had done and what they had taught.

31 And he said to them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place and rest a little. For those coming and those going were many, and they had not leisure even to eat.

32 And they went away apart into a desert place by ship.

33 And many saw them going, and recognised them, and ran together there on foot, out of all the cities, and got {there} before them.

34 And on leaving {the ship} {Jesus} saw a great crowd, and he was moved with compassion for them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.

35 And when it was already late in the day, his disciples coming to him say, The place is desert, and it is already late in the day;

36 send them away that they may go into the country and villages around, and buy themselves bread, for they have not anything they can eat.

37 And he answering said to them, Give *ye* them to eat. And they say to him, Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give them to eat?

38 And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? Go {and} see. And when they knew they say, Five, and two fishes.

39 And he ordered them to make them all sit down by companies on the green grass.

40 And they sat down in ranks by hundreds and by fifties.

41 And having taken the five loaves and the two fishes, looking up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave {them} to his disciples that they might set {them} before them. And the two fishes he divided among all.

42 And they all ate and were satisfied.

43 And they took up of fragments the fillings of twelve hand-baskets, and of the fishes.

44 And those that ate of the loaves were five thousand men.