2 Next week the great feast of the Jews would be observed, and Matthew said, Shall we not girt ourselves and go unto Jerusalem?
3 But Jesus said, We will not go up to the feast; the time is short and I have many things to say to you; come you apart into a desert place and rest a while.
4 And then they took their boats and crossed the sea, and came into a desert place near Julius Bethsaida.
5 The people saw them go, and in vast multitudes they followed them.
6 And Jesus had compassion on the anxious throng, and he stood forth and taught them all the day, because they sought the light and were like sheep without a fold.
7 And as the night came on the twelve were doubting what the multitudes would do, and Thomas said,
8 Lord, we are in a desert place; the multitudes have naught to eat and they are faint from lack of food; what shall we do?
9 And Jesus said, Go to and feed the multitudes.
10 And Judas said, Shall we go down and buy two hundred pennies’ worth of bread for them to eat?
11 And Jesus said, Go look into our larder and see how many loaves we have.