Verse 1

In those dayes, when there was a very great company, and had nothyng to eate, Iesus called his disciples to him, & saide vnto them:

Referenced Verses

• Matt 15:32-39 : 32 Then Iesus called his disciples vnto hym, and sayde: I haue compassion on the people, because they continue with me nowe three dayes, and haue nothing to eate: and I wyll not let them depart fastyng, lest they faynt in the way. 33 And his disciples say vnto hym: whence shoulde we get so much bread in the wyldernesse, as to suffise so great a multitude? 34 And Iesus sayeth vnto them: howe many loaues haue ye? And they say, seuen, and a fewe litle fisshes. 35 And he commaunded the people to sit downe on the grounde: 36 And toke the seuen loaues, and the fisshes: and after that he had geuen thankes, he brake them, and gaue to his disciples, and 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 left, seuen baskets full. 38 And yet they that did eate, were foure thousande men, besyde women and chyldren. 39 And he sent away the people, and toke shippe, and came into the parties of Magdala.
• Mark 6:34-44 : 34 And Iesus went out, and sawe much people, and had compassion on them, because they were lyke sheepe, not hauyng a sheepheard: And he began to teache them many thynges. 35 And when the day was nowe farre spent, his disciples came vnto hym, saying: This is a desert place, & nowe the tyme is farre passed: 36 Let them departe, that they may go into the countrey rounde about, and into the townes, and bye them bread: for they haue nothyng to eate. 37 He aunswered and sayde vnto them: geue ye them to eate. And they saide vnto him: Shall we go and bye two hundred penyworth of bread, & geue them to eate? 38 He sayde vnto them: Howe many loaues haue ye, go loke? And when they had searched, they sayde, fyue, and two fisshes. 39 And he commaunded them, to make them all sit downe by companies vpon the greene grasse. 40 And they sate downe, here a rowe, and there a rowe, by hundredes, & by fifties. 41 And when he had take the fiue loaues and the two fisshes, and loked vp to heauen, he blessed, and brake the loaues, & gaue them to his disciples to set before them: and the two fisshes deuided he among them all. 42 And they all did eate, & were satisfied. 43 And they toke vp twelue baskets full, of the fragmentes, & of the fisshes. 44 And they that dyd eate, were about fyue thousande men.