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And the day began to decline, and the twelve having come near, said to him, `Let away the multitude, that having gone to the villages and the fields round about, they may lodge and may find provision, because here we are in a desert place.'
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And he said unto them, `Give ye them to eat;' and they said, `We have no more than five loaves, and two fishes: except, having gone, we may buy for all this people victuals;'
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for they were about five thousand men. And he said unto his disciples, `Cause them to recline in companies, in each fifty;'
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and they did so, and made all to recline;
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and having taken the five loaves, and the two fishes, having looked up to the heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and was giving to the disciples to set before the multitude;
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and they did eat, and were all filled, and there was taken up what was over to them of broken pieces, twelve baskets.
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And it came to pass, as he is praying alone, the disciples were with him, and he questioned them, saying, `Who do the multitudes say me to be?'
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And they answering said, `John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;'
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and he said to them, `And ye -- who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering said, `The Christ of God.'
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And having charged them, he commanded [them] to say this to no one,
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saying -- `It behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and the third day to be raised.'