1 In those dayes when there was a very great company, and had nothinge to eate. Iesus called his disciples to hym and sayde vnto them:
Mark 8:1 Cross References - Matthew
Matthew 15:32-39
32 Then Iesus called hys disciples to hym & sayd I haue compassion on the people, because they haue continued with me now .iij. dayes & haue nought to eate, and I wil not let them departe fasting, lest they perish in the waie.
33 And his disciples sayd vnto hym, whence shoulde we get so muche breadde in the wildernes, as should suffice so great a multitude?
34 And Iesus sayde vnto them: How many loues haue ye? And they sayde: seuen, and a fewe litle fishes.
35 And he commaunded the people to sit doune on the grounde:
36 and toke the seuen loues and the fishes, and gaue thankes, and brake them and gaue to hys disciples, & the disciples gaue them to the people.
37 And they dyd all eate and were suffised. And they toke vp of the broken meate that was lefte .vij. baskettes full.
38 And yet thei that eate were .iiij.M. men, beside women and chyldren.
39 And he sent away the people & toke ship & came into the parties of Magdala.
Mark 6:34-44
34 And Iesus went out and sawe muche people, and had compassion on them, because they were lyke shepe, whyche had no shepeherd. And he beganne to teache them many thinges.
35 And when the daye was now farre spent, his disciples came vnto him saying: this is a deserte place,
36 and nowe the daye is farre passed, let them departe, that they maye go into the countrey roundabout, and into the tounes and bye them bread, for they haue nothing to eate.
37 He aunswered and sayd vnto them: geue ye them to eate. And they sayd vnto him: shal we go and bye .ij.C. peny worth of bread and geue them to eate?
38 He sayde vnto them: howe many loues haue ye? Go and loke. And when they had serched they sayde: fyue and .ij. fishes
39 And he commaunded them to make them all sit doune by companyes vpon the grene grasse.
40 And they sat doune, here a rowe and there a rowe, by hundredes, and fifties.
41 And he toke the .v. loues and the .ij. fishes, and loked vp to heauen, and blessed and brake the loues & gaue them to his disciples to put before theym: and the .ij. fishes he deuided amonge them all.
42 And they all did eate and were satisfied.
43 And they toke vp .xij. baskettes ful of the gobbettes and of the fishes.
44 And they that eate were aboute fyue thousand men.