12 Now the day began to be far spent, and the twelve came up and[a] said to him, “Send away the crowd so that they can go into the surrounding villages and farms to obtain lodging and find provisions, because we are here in a desolate place. 13 But he said to them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said, “We have no[b] more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and[c] purchase food for all these people.” 14 (For there were about five thousand men.) So he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 9:12 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“came up”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Luke 9:13 Literally “there is not to us”
  3. Luke 9:13 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“go”) has been translated as a finite verb