1 Depois disso, Jesus atravessou o mar da Galileia, conhecido também como mar de Tiberíades. 2 Uma grande multidão o seguia por toda parte, pois tinham visto os sinais que ele havia realizado ao curar os enfermos. 3 Então Jesus subiu a um monte e sentou-se com seus discípulos. 4 Era quase tempo da festa judaica da Páscoa. 5 Jesus logo viu uma grande multidão que vinha a seu encontro. Voltando-se para Filipe, perguntou: "Onde podemos comprar pão para alimentar toda essa gente?". 6 Disse isso para pôr Filipe à prova, pois já sabia o que ia fazer.

7 Filipe respondeu: "Mesmo que trabalhássemos vários meses, não teríamos dinheiro suficiente para dar alimento a todos!".

8 Então um de seus discípulos, André, irmão de Simão Pedro, falou: 9 "Aqui está um rapaz com cinco pães de cevada e dois peixes. Mas que adianta isso para tanta gente?".

10 Jesus respondeu: "Digam ao povo que se sente". Todos se sentaram na grama que cobria o monte. Só os homens eram cerca de cinco mil. 11 Então Jesus tomou os pães, agradeceu a Deus e os repartiu entre o povo. Em seguida, fez o mesmo com os peixes. E todos comeram à vontade. 12 Depois que todos estavam satisfeitos, Jesus disse a seus discípulos: "Agora juntem os pedaços que sobraram, para que nada se desperdice". 13 Eles juntaram o que restou e encheram doze cestos com as sobras.

14 Quando o povo viu Jesus fazer esse sinal, exclamou: "Sem dúvida ele é o profeta que haveria de vir ao mundo!".

1 Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee (that is, the Sea of Tiberias),

2 and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by healing the sick.

3 Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples.

4 The Jewish Passover Festival was near.

5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"

6 He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do.

7 Philip answered him, "It would take more than half a year's wages "to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!"

8 Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, spoke up,

9 "Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?"

10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there).

11 Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

12 When they had all had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted."

13 So they gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

14 After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, "Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world."