Lucas 9

Five Thousand Men Fed

12 Now the day *9:12 Lit began to declinewas ending, and the twelve came up and said to Him, "Dismiss the crowd, so that they may go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and get *9:12 Lit provisionssomething to eat; because here, we are in a secluded place." 13 But He said to them, "You give them something to eat!" But they said, "We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and buy food for all these people." 14 (For there were about five thousand men.) But He said to His disciples, "Have them recline to eat in groups of about fifty each."15 They did so, and had them all recline. 16 And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and, looking up to heaven, He blessed them and broke them, and gave them to the disciples again and again, to serve the crowd. 17 And they all ate and were satisfied; and *9:17 Lit what was left over to them of the broken pieces wasthe broken pieces which they had left over were picked up, twelve baskets full.