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"There's a young fellow here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But how far will they go among so many?"
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Yeshua said, "Have the people sit down." There was a lot of grass there, so they sat down. The number of men was about five thousand.
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Then Yeshua took the loaves of bread, and, after making a b'rakhah, gave to all who were sitting there, and likewise with the fish, as much as they wanted.
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After they had eaten their fill, he told his talmidim, "Gather the leftover pieces, so that nothing gets wasted."
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They gathered them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.
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When the people saw the miracle he had performed, they said, "This has to be `the prophet' who is supposed to come into the world."
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Yeshua knew that they were on the point of coming and seizing him, in order to make him king; so he went back to the hills again. This time he went by himself.
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When evening came, his talmidim went down to the lake,
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got into a boat and set out across the lake toward K'far-Nachum. By now it was dark, Yeshua had not yet joined them,
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and the sea was getting rough, because a strong wind was blowing.
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They had rowed three or four miles when they saw Yeshua approaching the boat, walking on the lake! They were terrified;