Mark 6:35-56 ▼

35 And having been already much time, his disciples, having come to him, say, This is a desert place, and already the time much:

36 Loose them, that having departed to the fields and towns round about, they might buy to themselves loaves: for they have nothing they might eat.

37 And having answered, he said to them, Give ye them to eat. And they say to him, Having gone, should we buy loaves of two hundred drachmas, and give them to eat?

38 And he says to them, How many loaves have ye? retire and see. And having known, they say, Five, and two fishes.

39 And he commanded them all to recline a drinking together, drinking together upon the green grass.

40 And the borders, the borders reclined, by one hundred, and by fifty.

41 And having taken the five loaves and two fishes, having looked up to heaven, he praised, and he brake the loaves, and gave to his disciples that they might set before them; and the two fishes he divided to all.

42 And they all ate, and were satisfied.

43 And they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and of fishes.

44 And they eating the loaves were about five thousand men.

45 And quickly he constrained his disciples to go to the ship, and to lead before to the other side of Bethsaida, till he loose the crowd:

46 And having dismissed them, he went away to the mount to pray.

47 And evening having come, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and he alone upon land.

48 And he saw them trying to urge forward, for the wind was contrary to them: and about the fourth watch of the night he comes to them walking upon the sea, and he would pass by them.

49 And having seen him walking upon the sea, they thought it was an apparition, and cried out:

50 For all saw him, and were troubled. And quickly he spake with them, and says to them, Take courage: I am; be not afraid.

51 And he went up to them to the ship; and the wind ceased, and they were greatly affected in mind above measure and wondered.

52 For they understood not the loaves; for their heart was hardened.

53 And having passed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret, and put into a harbor.

54 And they having come out of the ship, quickly having known him.

55 Running round about that whole country, began to bring the afflicted upon couches, where they heard that he is there.

56 And wherever he went, in towns, or cities; or fields, they set the sick in the market-places, and besought him that they might even touch the hem of his garment: and as many as touched him were saved.