12 ^aWhen the day began to wear away, the twelve came and said to Him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding towns and country, and lodge and get provisions; for we are in a deserted place here.”  ‡

13 But He said to them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

16 Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He ^ablessed and broke them, and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.  ‡

17 So they all ate and were¹ filled, and twelve baskets of the leftover fragments were taken up by them.  ‡