Bible Cross References
when
Matthew 14:15-21
15
That evening his disciples came to him and said, "It is already very late, and this is a lonely place. Send the people away and let them go to the villages to buy food for themselves."
16
"They don't have to leave," answered Jesus. "You yourselves give them something to eat!"
17
"All we have here are five loaves and two fish," they replied.
18
"Then bring them here to me," Jesus said.
19
He ordered the people to sit down on the grass; then he took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, and gave thanks to God. He broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.
20
Everyone ate and had enough. Then the disciples took up twelve baskets full of what was left over.
21
The number of men who ate was about five thousand, not counting the women and children.
Mark 6:35
When it was getting late, his disciples came to him and said, "It is already very late, and this is a lonely place.
Mark 6:36-44
36
Send the people away, and let them go to the nearby farms and villages in order to buy themselves something to eat."
37
"You yourselves give them something to eat," Jesus answered. They asked, "Do you want us to go and spend two hundred silver coins on bread in order to feed them?"
38
So Jesus asked them, "How much bread do you have? Go and see." When they found out, they told him, "Five loaves and also two fish."
39
Jesus then told his disciples to make all the people divide into groups and sit down on the green grass.
40
So the people sat down in rows, in groups of a hundred and groups of fifty.
41
Then Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, and gave thanks to God. He broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.
42
Everyone ate and had enough.
43
Then the disciples took up twelve baskets full of what was left of the bread and the fish.
44
The number of men who were fed was five thousand.
John 6:1
After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias, as it is also called).
John 6:5-15
5
Jesus looked around and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, so he asked Philip, "Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?"
6
(He said this to test Philip; actually he already knew what he would do.)
7
Philip answered, "For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins to buy enough bread."
8
Another one of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, said,
9
"There is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough for all these people."
10
"Make the people sit down," Jesus told them. (There was a lot of grass there.) So all the people sat down; there were about five thousand men.
11
Jesus took the bread, gave thanks to God, and distributed it to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, and they all had as much as they wanted.
12
When they were all full, he said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces left over; let us not waste a bit."
13
So they gathered them all and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten.
14
Seeing this miracle that Jesus had performed, the people there said, "Surely this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"
15
Jesus knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make him king by force; so he went off again to the hills by himself.
Send
Matthew 15:23
But Jesus did not say a word to her. His disciples came to him and begged him, "Send her away! She is following us and making all this noise!"
Matthew 15:32
Jesus called his disciples to him and said, "I feel sorry for these people, because they have been with me for three days and now have nothing to eat. I don't want to send them away without feeding them, for they might faint on their way home."
for
Psalm 78:19
They spoke against God and said, "Can God supply food in the desert?
Psalm 78:20
It is true that he struck the rock, and water flowed out in a torrent; but can he also provide us with bread and give his people meat?"
Ezekiel 34:25
I will make a covenant with them that guarantees their security. I will get rid of all the dangerous animals in the land, so that my sheep can live safely in the fields and sleep in the forests.
Hosea 13:5
I took care of you in a dry, desert land.