13 But he said to them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said, “We have no[a] more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and[b] 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.” 15 And they did so, and had them all sit down.

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Footnotes

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

13 He replied, “You give them something to eat.”

They answered, “We have only five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd.” 14 (About five thousand men were there.)

But he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.” 15 The disciples did so, and everyone sat down.

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