Luke 9:11-17

Christian Standard Bible

¹¹ When the crowds found out, they followed him. He welcomed them,^(A) spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing.

¹² Late in the day,^(B) the Twelve approached and said to him, “Send the crowd away,^(C) 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^(D) 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.” ¹⁵ They did what he said, and had them all sit down. ¹⁶ Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven,^(E) he blessed and broke them.^(F) He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd. ¹⁷ Everyone ate and was filled. They picked up twelve baskets of leftover pieces.