Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴² And a certain man came from Baalsalisa bringing to the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty leaves of barley, and new corn in his scrip. And he said: Give to the people, that they may eat.

⁴³ And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men? He said again: Give to the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the Lord: They shall eat, and there shall be left.

⁴⁴ So he set it before them: and they ate, and there was left according to the word of the Lord.

¹⁰ The Lord shall reign for ever: thy God, O Sion, unto generation and generation.

¹⁴ For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

¹⁵ Of whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named,

¹⁶ That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened by his Spirit with might unto the inward man,

¹⁷ That Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts; that being rooted and founded in charity,

¹⁸ You may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth:

¹⁹ To know also the charity of Christ, which surpasseth all knowledge, that you may be filled unto all the fulness of God.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do all things more abundantly than we desire or understand, according to the power that worketh in us;

²¹ To him be glory in the church, and in Christ Jesus unto all generations, world without end. Amen.

6 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is that of Tiberias.

² And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles which he did on them that were diseased.

³ Jesus therefore went up into a mountain, and there he sat with his disciples.

⁴ Now the pasch, the festival day of the Jews, was near at hand.

⁵ When Jesus therefore had lifted up his eyes, and seen that a very great multitude cometh to him, he said to Philip: Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat?

⁶ And this he said to try him; for he himself knew what he would do.

⁷ Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one may take a little.

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, saith to him:

⁹ There is a boy here that hath five barley loaves, and two fishes; but what are these among so many?

¹⁰ Then Jesus said: Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. The men therefore sat down, in number about five thousand.

¹¹ And Jesus took the loaves: and when he had given thanks, he distributed to them that were set down. In like manner also of the fishes, as much as they would.

¹² And when they were filled, he said to his disciples: Gather up the fragments that remain, lest they be lost.

¹³ They gathered up therefore, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above to them that had eaten.

¹⁴ Now those men, when they had seen what a miracle Jesus had done, said: This is of a truth the prophet, that is to come into the world.

¹⁵ Jesus therefore, when he knew that they would come to take him by force, and make him king, fled again into the mountain himself alone.

¹⁶ And when evening was come, his disciples went down to the sea.

¹⁷ And when they had gone up into a ship, they went over the sea to Capharnaum; and it was now dark, and Jesus was not come unto them.

¹⁸ And the sea arose, by reason of a great wind that blew.

¹⁹ When they had rowed therefore about five and twenty or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking upon the sea, and drawing nigh to the ship, and they were afraid.

²⁰ But he saith to them: It is I; be not afraid.

²¹ They were willing therefore to take him into the ship; and presently the ship was at the land to which they were going.