MARCOS 6

A primeira multiplicação dos pães

30 Os apóstolos voltaram de sua missão e contaram a Jesus tudo que tinham feito e ensinado. 31 Jesus lhes disse: "Vamos sozinhos até um lugar tranquilo para descansar um pouco", pois tanta gente ia e vinha que eles não tinham tempo nem para comer.

32 Então saíram de barco para um lugar isolado, a fim de ficarem a sós. 33 Contudo, muitos os reconheceram e os viram partir, e pessoas de várias cidades correram e chegaram antes deles. 34 Quando Jesus saiu do barco, viu a grande multidão e teve compaixão dela, pois eram como ovelhas sem pastor. Então começou a lhes ensinar muitas coisas.

35 Ao entardecer, os discípulos foram até ele e disseram: "Este lugar é isolado, e já está tarde. 36 Mande as multidões embora, para que possam ir aos campos e povoados vizinhos e comprar algo para comer".

37 Jesus, porém, disse: "Providenciem vocês mesmos alimento para eles".

"Precisaríamos de muito dinheiro*6.37 Em grego, Precisaríamos de 200 denários. Um denário equivalia ao salário por um dia completo de trabalho. para comprar comida para todo esse povo!", responderam.

38 "Quantos pães vocês têm?", perguntou ele. "Vão verificar."

Eles voltaram e informaram: "Cinco pães e dois peixes".

39 Então Jesus ordenou que fizessem a multidão sentar-se em grupos na grama verde. 40 Assim, eles se sentaram em grupos de cinquenta e de cem.

41 Jesus tomou os cinco pães e os dois peixes, olhou para o céu e os abençoou. Então, à medida que ia partindo os pães, entregava-os aos discípulos para que os distribuíssem ao povo. Também dividiu os peixes para que todos recebessem uma porção. 42 Todos comeram à vontade, 43 e os discípulos recolheram doze cestos com os pães e peixes que sobraram. 44 Os que comeram*6.44 Alguns manuscritos acrescentam dos pães. foram cinco mil homens.

30 And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught. 31 And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat. 32 And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. 33 And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him. 34 And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things. 35 And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed: 36 Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat. 37 He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat? 38 He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes. 39 And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass. 40 And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties. 41 And when he had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, he looked up to heaven, and blessed, and brake the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all. 42 And they did all eat, and were filled. 43 And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. 44 And they that did eat of the loaves were about five thousand men.