Luke 9:3-17

3“Take nothing for the road,” he told them, “no staff, no traveling bag, no bread, no money; and don’t take an extra shirt.

4Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there.

5If they do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

6So they went out and traveled from village to village, proclaiming the good news and healing everywhere.

7Herod the tetrarch heard about everything that was going on. He was perplexed, because some said that John had been raised from the dead,

8some that Elijah had appeared, and others that one of the ancient prophets had risen.

9“I beheaded John,” Herod said, “but who is this I hear such things about?” And he wanted to see him.

10When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus all that they had done. He took them along and withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida.

11When the crowds found out, they followed him. He welcomed them, spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing.

12Late in the day, the Twelve approached and said to him, “Send the crowd away, so that they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find food and lodging, because we are in a deserted place here.”

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

14(For about five thousand men were there.) Then he told his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

15They did what he said, and had them all sit down.

16Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he blessed and broke them. He kept giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

17Everyone ate and was filled. They picked up twelve baskets of leftover pieces.