12 Late in the day,(A) the Twelve approached and said to him, “Send the crowd away,(B) so that they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

13 “You give them something to eat,” he told them.

“We have no more than five loaves(C) and two fish,” they said, “unless we go and buy food for all these people.” 14 (For about five thousand men were there.)

Then he told his disciples, “Have them sit down[a] in groups of about fifty each.”

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Footnotes

  1. 9:14 Lit them recline

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