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And he said to them, How much bread have you? go and see. And when they had seen, they said, Five cakes of bread and two fishes.
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And he made them all be seated in groups on the green grass.
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And they were placed in groups, by hundreds and by fifties.
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And he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing over them; and when the cakes were broken, he gave them to the disciples to put before the people; and he made division of the two fishes among them all.
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And they all took of the food and had enough.
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And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken bits and of the fishes.
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And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.
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And straight away he made his disciples get into the boat, and go before him to the other side to Beth-saida, while he himself sent the people away.
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And after he had sent them away, he went up into a mountain for prayer.
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And by evening, the boat was in the middle of the sea, and he by himself on the land.
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And seeing that they had trouble in getting their boat through the water, because the wind was against them, about the fourth watch of the night he came to them, walking on the sea; and he would have gone past them;