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Yeshua left there and went along the shore of Lake Kinneret. He climbed a hill and sat down;
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and large crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute and many others. They laid them at his feet, and he healed them.
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The people were amazed as they saw mute people speaking, crippled people cured, lame people walking and blind people seeing; and they said a b'rakhah to the God of Isra'el.
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Yeshua called his talmidim to him and said, "I feel sorry for these people, because they have been with me three days, and now they have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away hungry, because they might collapse on the way home."
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The talmidim said to him, "Where will we find enough loaves of bread in this remote place to satisfy so big a crowd?"
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Yeshua asked them, "How many loaves do you have?" They said, "Seven, and a few fish."
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After telling the crowd to sit down on the ground,
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he took the seven loaves and the fish, made a b'rakhah, broke the loaves and gave them to the talmidim, who gave them to the people.
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Every one ate his fill, and they took seven large baskets full of the leftover pieces.
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Those eating numbered four thousand men, plus women and children.
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After sending the crowd away, he got in the boat and went off to the region of Magadan.
