JESUS FEEDS 5000 PEOPLE WITH 5 LOAVES OF BREAD AND 2 FISH
[John 6, 3-14]
Jesus went up on the mountain, and there He sat with His disciples. Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes, and seeing a great multitude coming toward Him, He said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread, that these may eat?” But this He said to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
Philip answered Him, “Two hundred denarii (200 days’ wages) worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may have a little.” One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him, “There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are these for so many people?
Then Jesus said, “Make the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.
Jesus took the loaves, and when He had given thanks He distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those sitting down; and likewise of the fish, as much as they wanted.
So when they were filled, He said to His disciples, “Gather up the fragments that remain, so that nothing is lost.” Therefore they gathered them up, and they filled twelve large baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten.
Then those men, when they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, “This is truly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”
Matthew 14:15-21
When evening came, the disciples came to Him and said, “This is an isolated place and the hour is already late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.
But Jesus said to them,
“They do not need to go away; you give them something to eat!”
They replied, “We have nothing here except five loaves and two fish.”
Jesus said, “Bring them here to Me.”
Then He ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and He took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people, and they all ate and were satisfied.
They picked up twelve full baskets of the leftover broken pieces. There were about 5,000 men who ate, besides women and children.
Matthew 15:32-38
Jesus called His disciples and said, “I feel compassion for the crowd, because they have been with Me now three days and have nothing left to eat.
I do not want to send them away hungry, because they might faint on the way home.
”The disciples said to Him, “Where are we to get enough bread in this isolated place to feed so large a crowd?”
Jesus asked them, “How many loaves of bread do you have?”
They replied, “Seven, and a few small fish.”
He directed the crowd to sit down on the ground, and He took the seven loaves and the fish; and when He had given thanks, He broke them and started giving them to the disciples.
The disciples gave them to the people. And they all ate and were satisfied, and they gathered up seven full baskets of the broken pieces that were left over. Among those who ate were 4,000 men, not counting women and children.