And when they knew, one of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? We have no more but five loaves and two fishes: except we should go and buy meat for all this people. For they were about five thousand men. He said,
Bring them hither to me.
And he said to his disciples,
Make them sit down by fifties in a company upon the green grass.
Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties, in number about five thousand. And when Jesus had taken the five loaves and the two fishes, and when he had given thanks, looking up to heaven, he blessed them and brake the loaves, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude that were set down: and likewise the two fishes divided he among them all; as much as they would. And they did all eat, and were filled. When they were filled, he said unto his disciples,
Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, and of the fishes, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten. And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.