Luke 9:12-14

New Century Version

¹² Late in the afternoon, the twelve apostles came to Jesus and said, “Send the people away. They need to go to the towns and countryside around here and find places to sleep and something to eat, because no one lives in this place.”

¹³ But Jesus said to them, “You give them something to eat.”

They said, “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish, unless we go buy food for all these people.” ¹⁴ (There were about five thousand men there.)

Jesus said to his followers, “Tell the people to sit in groups of about fifty people.”