When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd,
He had compassion on them,
because they were like sheep without a shepherd.
So He began teaching them many things.
By this time it was late in the day,
so His disciples came to Him.
"This is a remote place," they said,
"and it's already very late.
Send the people away so they can go
to the surrounding countryside and villages
and buy themselves something to eat."
But He answered,
"You give them something to eat."
They said to Him,
"That would take eight months of a man's wages!
Are we to go and spend that much on bread
and give it to them to eat?"
"How many loaves to you have?" He asked.
"Go and see."
When they found out, they said,
"Five - and two fish."
Then Jesus directed them to have
all the people sit down in groups on the green grass.
So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties.
Taking the five loaves and the two fish
and looking up to heaven,
He gave thanks and broke the loaves.
then He gave them to His disciples
to set before the people.
He also divided the two fish among them all.
They all ate and were satisfied,
and the disciples picked up
twelve basketfuls of the broken pieces of bread and fish.
The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand.
Immediately Jesus made His disciples get into the boat
and go on ahead of Him to Bethsaida,
while He dismissed the crowd.
After leaving them,
He went up on a mountainside to pray.
(Mark 6:34-46) NIV
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Saturday, March 02, 2013
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