John 6:1-14

1Some time after that, Jesus went across Lake Galilee, which is also called Lake Tiberias.

2A large crowd of people followed him, because of the miracles that he had done. They had seen him make sick people well.

3Jesus went up a hill and he sat down there with his disciples.

4It was nearly the time for the Jewish Passover Festival.

5Jesus looked up. He saw a large crowd of people who were coming towards him. He said to Philip, ‘Where can we buy enough bread to feed all these people?’

6Jesus himself already knew what he would do. But he asked Philip this question because he wanted to know what Philip would say.

7Philip answered, ‘A man could work for eight months to get 200 silver coins. But he still would not have enough money to buy bread for all these people. There would not be enough bread for each person here to have even a little piece.’

8Then Andrew, another one of Jesus' disciples, spoke. He was Simon Peter's brother.

9He said to Jesus, ‘Here is a boy who has five small loaves and two fish. But that will certainly not be enough food for so many people.’

10Jesus said, ‘Tell the people to sit down.’ There was plenty of grass in that place, so the people sat down. There were about 5,000 men in the crowd.

11Jesus took the loaves of bread and he thanked God for them. Then he broke the loaves into pieces. He passed them to all the people who were sitting there. Everyone had as much bread as they wanted to eat. Jesus did the same with the fish.

12When everyone had eaten enough food, Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Do not waste anything. Pick up all the little bits of food that people have not eaten.’

13So the disciples picked up all the pieces. They filled 12 baskets with the bits of bread that the people had not eaten.

14The people saw this miracle that Jesus did. So they began to talk about it. They said, ‘Certainly, this man is the Prophet who must come into the world.’