15 Toward the evening, his disciples accosted him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past, dismiss the multitude, that they may go to the villages; and buy themselves provisions.

16 Jesus answered, They need not go. Supply them yourselves.

17 They said to him, We have here but five loaves and two fishes.

18 He replied, Bring them hither to me.

19 Then having commanded the people to recline upon the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking toward heaven, blessed them; then breaking the loaves, he gave them to the disciples, and they distributed them among the people.

20 When all had eat, and were satisfied, they carried off twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained.

21 Now they that had eat were about five thousand men; besides women and children.