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 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 foram cinco mil homens.

30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught.

31 He said to them,"Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest for a while." For so many people were coming and going that they didn't even have time to eat.

32 So they went away in a boat to a deserted place by themselves.

33 But many people saw them leave and recognized them. So they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them.

34 When he got out of the boat, he saw a large crowd. He had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.

35 When it was quite late, his disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and it's already late.

36 Send the crowds away so that they can go to the neighboring farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat."

37 But he answered them,"You give them something to eat."They said to him, "Should we go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?"

38 He asked them,"How many loaves of bread do you have? Go and see."They found out and told him, "Five loaves and two fish."

39 Then he ordered them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.

40 So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.

41 Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed them. Then he broke the loaves in pieces and kept giving them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

42 All of them ate and were filled.

43 Then the disciples picked up twelve baskets full of leftover bread and fish.

44 There were 5,000 men who had eaten the loaves.