Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

⁴² Then a man came from Baalshalisha, who brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of wheat in the head. And he said, Give unto the people that they may eat.

⁴³ And his minister said, How can I set this before one hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat, for thus hath the LORD said, They shall eat, and some shall be left over.

⁴⁴ So he set it before them, and they ate, and some was left over, according to the word of the LORD.

Jod

¹⁰ ¶ Let all thy works praise thee, O LORD, and thy merciful ones bless thee.

Caph

¹¹ They speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power,

Lamed

¹² to make known to the sons of Adam his mighty acts and the glory of the magnificence of his kingdom.

Mem

¹³ Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages, and thy dominion endures throughout all generations.

Samech

¹⁴ The LORD upholds all that fall and raises up all those that are oppressed.

Ain

¹⁵ The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their food in due season.

Pe

¹⁶ Thou dost open thine hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.

Tzaddi

¹⁷ The LORD is righteous in all his ways and merciful in all his works.

Koph

¹⁸ The LORD is near unto all those that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.

¹⁴ ¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

¹⁵ (of whom the whole family in the heavens and on earth is named),

¹⁶ that he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man,

¹⁷ that the Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted and grounded in charity,

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

¹⁹ and to know the charity of the Christ, which passes all knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

²¹ unto him be glory in the congregation {Gr. ekklesia – called out ones} by Christ Jesus throughout all generations of the ages of the ages. Amen.

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

² And a great multitude followed him because they saw his signs which he did on the sick.

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

⁴ And the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

⁵ Then Jesus lifted up his eyes and saw a great company come unto him; he said unto Philip, From where shall we buy bread that these may eat?

⁶ But he said this to prove him, for he knew what he would do.

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

⁸ One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said unto him,

⁹ There is a lad here, who has five barley loaves and two small fishes, but what are they among so many?

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

¹¹ And Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples and the disciples to those that were sitting down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they desired.

¹² When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain that nothing be lost.

¹³ Therefore they gathered them together and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves which were left over from those that had eaten.

¹⁴ Then those men, as they had seen the sign that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth the prophet that was to come into the world.

¹⁵ ¶ Jesus therefore knowing that they would come and take him by force to make him king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.

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

¹⁷ and entered into a ship and were crossing the sea toward Capernaum. And it was now dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

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

¹⁹ So when they had rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they saw Jesus walking upon the sea and drawing nigh unto the ship, and they were afraid.

²⁰ But he said unto them, I AM; be not afraid.

²¹ Then they willingly received him into the ship, and immediately the ship was at the land where they went.