⁹ “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, ^(A)but what are they among so many?”

Elisha Feeds One Hundred Men^(A)

⁴² Then a man came from ^(B)Baal Shalisha, ^(C)and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley bread, and newly ripened grain in his knapsack. And he said, “Give it to the people, that they may eat.”

⁴³ But his servant said, ^(D)“What? Shall I set this before one hundred men?”

He said again, “Give it to the people, that they may eat; for thus says the Lord: ^(E)‘They shall eat and have some left over.’ ” ⁴⁴ So he set it before them; and they ate ^(F)and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord.

¹³ But He said to them, “You give them something to eat.”

And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

³⁸ But He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.”

And when they found out they said, ^(A)“Five, and two fish.”

¹⁷ And they said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.”

^19 (A)When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments did you take up?”

They said to Him, “Twelve.”

^9 (A)Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

⁹ For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, ^(A)that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become ^(B)rich.