January 7, 2014, Gospel

6:34	And Jesus, going out, saw a great multitude. And he took pity on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things.
6:35	And when many hours had now passed, his disciples drew near to him, saying: “This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late.
6:36	Send them away, so that by going out to nearby villages and towns, they might buy provisions for themselves to eat.”
6:37	And responding, he said to them, “Give them something to eat yourselves.” And they said to him, “Let us go out and buy bread for two hundred denarii, and then we will give them something to eat.”
6:38	And he said to them: “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
6:39	And he instructed them to make them all sit down in groups on the green grass.
6:40	And they sat down in divisions by hundreds and by fifties.
6:41	And having received the five loaves and the two fish, gazing up to heaven, he blessed and broke the bread, and he gave it to his disciples to set before them. And the two fish he divided among them all.
6:42	And they all ate and were satisfied.
6:43	And they brought together the remainder: twelve baskets full of fragments and of fish.
6:44	Now those who ate were five thousand men.

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