So all ate, and were fully satisfied. The broken portions that remained over they gathered up, filling twelve baskets.
Those who had eaten were about 5,000 adult men, without reckoning women and children.
»Where can we,« asked the disciples, »get bread enough in this remote place to satisfy so vast a multitude?«
»Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be completely satisfied.«
The hungry He has satisfied with choice gifts, But the rich He has sent empty-handed away.
So they ate and were fully satisfied, all of them; and what they had remaining over was gathered up, twelve baskets of fragments.
»Seven pounds' worth of bread,« replied Philip, »is not enough for them all to get even a scanty meal.«