Event

Feeding of Five Thousand

Name: Feeding of Five Thousand
Location: Bethsaida

Date:: AD 29
Duration:: 1 day

Jesus feeds a crowd of about five thousand men, plus women and children, from just five loaves and two fish, with twelve baskets of leftovers gathered afterward. It is the only miracle recorded in all four Gospels besides the resurrection (Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6:30-44; Luke 9:10-17; John 6:1-14).

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Preceded by 1

John Beheaded

Followed by 1

Jesus Walks on Water

Participants 3

Andrew Jesus Philip

Locations 1

Bethsaida

Described in 46

Reference	Verse
Matthew 14:13	When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.
Matthew 14:14	And Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick.
Matthew 14:15	And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.
Matthew 14:16	But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.
Matthew 14:17	And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
Matthew 14:18	He said, Bring them hither to me.
Matthew 14:19	And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
Matthew 14:20	And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
Matthew 14:21	And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.
Mark 6:30	And the apostles gathered themselves together unto Jesus, and told him all things, both what they had done, and what they had taught.
Mark 6:31	And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
Mark 6:32	And they departed into a desert place by ship privately.
Mark 6:33	And the people saw them departing, and many knew him, and ran afoot thither out of all cities, and outwent them, and came together unto him.
Mark 6:34	And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.
Mark 6:35	And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came unto him, and said, This is a desert place, and now the time is far passed:
Mark 6:36	Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.
Mark 6:37	He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?
Mark 6:38	He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
Mark 6:39	And he commanded them to make all sit down by companies upon the green grass.
Mark 6:40	And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.

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