Mark 8:1-10
Chapter 8
Feeding the Four Thousand
Soon afterward, Jesus was in the middle of another large crowd that clearly had nothing to eat. He called his disciples and said to them:“I feel sorry for these people because they’ve been with me for three days and now have nothing to eat.
If I send them home hungry, they will faint on the way; some of them have come a long distance.”
His disciples replied:
“Where, in a deserted place like this, could we get enough bread to feed these people?”
He asked them:
“How many loaves have you?”
And they answered:
“Seven.”
Then he instructed the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, he gave thanks, broke them, and handed them to his disciples to distribute. They distributed them among the people.
They also had some small fish. So Jesus said a blessing and asked that these be shared as well.
The people ate until they were satisfied, then gathered the leftover broken pieces, filling seven baskets.
Those who had eaten numbered about four thousand. Jesus sent them away,
and immediately got into the boat with his disciples to go to the region of Dalmanutha.