1 In those days when there was again a great crowd without anything to eat, he called his disciples and said to them,

2 “I have compassion for the crowd, because they have been with me now for three days and have nothing to eat.

3 If I send them away hungry to their homes, they will faint on the way—and some of them have come from a great distance.”

4 His disciples replied, “How can one feed these people with bread here in the desert?”

5 He asked them, “How many loaves do you have?” They said, “Seven.”

6 Then he ordered the crowd to sit down on the ground; and he took the seven loaves, and after giving thanks he broke them and gave them to his disciples to distribute; and they distributed them to the crowd.

7 They had also a few small fish; and after blessing them, he ordered that these too should be distributed.

Mark 8:1-7, NRSV Catholic Edition. Copyright © 1989, 1993 by the National Council of the Churches of Christ.
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