Goodspeed(i)
1 In those days when a great crowd had gathered again and they had nothing to eat, he called his disciples to him and said to them,
2 "I pity these people, for they have been staying with me three days now, and they have nothing left to eat.
3 And if I send them home hungry they will give out on the way, for some of them come from a distance."
4 His disciples replied, "Where can anyone get bread enough, here in this solitude, to satisfy these people's hunger?"
5 "How many loaves have you?" he asked. "Seven," they said.
6 Then he ordered the people to take their places on the ground. And he took the seven loaves and gave thanks and broke them in pieces and gave them to his disciples to pass, and they passed them to the people.
7 They had a few small fish, and he blessed them and told the disciples to pass them also to the people.
8 And they ate and satisfied their hunger. And the pieces that they left, that were picked up, filled seven baskets.
9 There were about four thousand of the people. And he dismissed them.