The Twelve Return. Jesus Multiplies Bread And Fish To Feed 5000 Men

¹⁰ And having returned, the apostles related to Him all that they did. And having taken them along, He retreated privately toward a city being called Bethsaida. ¹¹ But the crowds, having known^[a] it, followed Him. And having welcomed them, He was speaking to them about the kingdom of God and healing the ones having a need of a cure. ¹² And the day began to decline. And having come to Him, the twelve said to Him, “Send-away the crowd in order that having gone into the surrounding villages and farms, they may take-up-lodging and find provisions, because here we are in a desolate place”. ¹³ But He said to them, “You give them something to eat”. And the ones said, “There are not more than five loaves and two fish with us— unless perhaps, having gone, we should buy food for this whole group-of-people!”. ¹⁴ For there were about five-thousand men. And He said to His disciples, “Make them lie-down [to eat] in eating-groups— about fifty each”. ¹⁵ And they did so, and made everyone lie down. ¹⁶ And having taken the five loaves and the two fish, having looked up to heaven, He blessed them, and broke them in pieces, and was giving them to the disciples to set-before the crowd. ¹⁷ And they ate and were all filled-to-satisfaction. And the amount of fragments left-over by them was picked up— twelve baskets.