1 Depois disso, atravessou Jesus o lago da Galiléia {que é o de Tiberíades.}

2 Seguia-o uma grande multidão, porque via os milagres que fazia em beneficio dos enfermos.

3 Jesus subiu a um monte e ali se sentou com seus discípulos.

4 Aproximava-se a Páscoa, festa dos judeus.

5 Jesus levantou os olhos sobre aquela grande multidão que vinha ter com ele e disse a Filipe: Onde compraremos pão para que todos estes tenham o que comer?

6 Falava assim para o experimentar, pois bem sabia o que havia de fazer.

7 Filipe respondeu-lhe: Duzentos denários de pão não lhes bastam, para que cada um receba um pedaço.

8 Um dos seus discípulos, chamado André, irmão de Simão Pedro, disse-lhe:

9 Está aqui um menino que tem cinco pães de cevada e dois peixes... mas que é isto para tanta gente?

10 Disse Jesus: Fazei-os assentar. Ora, havia naquele lugar muita relva. Sentaram-se aqueles homens em número de uns cinco mil.

11 Jesus tomou os pães e rendeu graças. Em seguida, distribuiu-os às pessoas que estavam sentadas, e igualmente dos peixes lhes deu quanto queriam.

12 Estando eles saciados, disse aos discípulos: Recolhei os pedaços que sobraram, para que nada se perca.

13 Eles os recolheram e, dos pedaços dos cinco pães de cevada que sobraram, encheram doze cestos.

14 À vista desse milagre de Jesus, aquela gente dizia: Este é verdadeiramente o profeta que há 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."