Bible Verses About Loaves

As evening approached, the talmidim came to him and said, "This is a remote place and it's getting late. Send the crowds away, so that they can go and buy food for themselves in the villages."

But Yeshua replied, "They don't need to go away. Give them something to eat, yourselves!"

"All we have with us," they said, "is five loaves of bread and two fish."

He said, "Bring them here to me."

After instructing the crowds to sit down on the grass, he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, made a b'rakhah. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim, who gave them to the crowds.

They all ate as much as they wanted, and they took up twelve baskets full of the pieces left over.

Those eating numbered about five thousand men, plus women and children.

Yeshua asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few fish."

After telling the crowd to sit down on the ground,

he took the seven loaves and the fish, made a b'rakhah, broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim, who gave them to the people.

Every one ate his fill, and they took seven large baskets full of the leftover pieces.

Those eating numbered four thousand men, plus women and children.

The day began to draw to a close. The Twelve came to him and said, “Send the crowd away, so that they can go and get lodging and food in the towns and farms around here, because where we are is a remote place.”

But he said to them, “Give them something to eat, yourselves!” They said, “We have no more than five loaves of bread and two fish — unless we ourselves are supposed to go and buy food for all these people!”

(For there were about five thousand men.) He said to his talmidim, “Make them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

They did what he told them and had them all sit down.

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish and, looking up toward heaven, made a b’rakhah, broke the loaves and began giving them to the talmidim to distribute to the crowd.

Everyone ate as much as he wanted; and they took up what was left over, twelve baskets full of broken pieces.