1 In those days, the multitude being very great and having nothing to eat, Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them,
2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now continued with Me three days and have nothing to eat.
3 And if I send them away hungry to their own houses, they will faint on the way; for some of them have come from afar.
4 And His disciples answered Him, How can one satisfy these people with bread here in the wilderness?
5 He asked them, How many loaves do you have? And they said, Seven.
6 So He commanded the multitude to sit down on the ground. And He took the seven loaves and gave thanks, broke them and gave them to His disciples to set before them; and they set them before the multitude.
7 And they also had a few small fish; and having blessed them, He said to set them also before them.
8 So they ate and were filled, and they took up seven baskets of leftover fragments.
9 And those who had eaten were about four thousand. And He sent them away,