Marcos 8

Again Jesus provided food miraculously for a great crowd who gathered to hear him and became hungry.

1 During those days, a large crowd of people gathered again. After they had been there a couple days, they had no food to eat. So Jesus summoned the disciples to come closer and then he said to them, 2 "This is the third day that these people have been with me, and they have nothing left to eat, so now I feel very sorry for them. 3 Furthermore, if I send them home while they are still hungry, some of them will faint on the way home, because some of them have come from far away." 4 Knowing that he was suggesting that they give the people something to eat, one of his disciples replied, "◄We cannot possibly find food to satisfy this crowd, here in this place where no people live!/How can we find food to satisfy this crowd, here in this place where no people live?►" [RHQ] 5 Jesus asked them, "How many loaves of bread do you have?" They replied, "We have seven flat loaves." 6 Jesus commanded the crowd, "Sit down on the ground!" After they sat down, he took the seven loaves, he thanked God for them, he broke them into pieces and started giving them to his disciples in order that they might distribute them to the people. 7 They found that they also had a few small dried fish. So after he thanked God for these, he told the disciples, "Distribute these also." After they distributed the bread and fish to the crowd, 8 the people ate this food and they had plenty to satisfy them. The disciples collected the pieces of food that were left over. They filled seven large baskets full of those pieces. 9 They estimated that there were about 4,000 people who ate on that day.