Mark 8:1-9

Darby Translation

8 In those days, there being again a great crowd, and they having nothing that they could eat, having called his disciples to [him], he says to them,

² I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat,

³ and if I should dismiss them to their home fasting, they will faint on the way; for some of them are come from far.

⁴ And his disciples answered him, Whence shall one be able to satisfy these with bread here in a desert place?

⁵ And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.

⁶ And he commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. And having taken the seven loaves, he gave thanks, and broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples, that they might set [them] before [them]; and they set [them] before the crowd.

⁷ And they had a few small fishes, and having blessed them, he desired these also to be set before [them].

⁸ And they ate and were satisfied. And they took up of fragments that remained seven baskets.

⁹ And they [that had eaten] were about four thousand; and he sent them away.