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And Jesus hearing it, withdrew thence by ship into a desert place apart: but when the people heard thereof, they followed him by land out of the cities.

And in the evening his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past: send the multitude away, that going into the villages, they may buy themselves victuals.

They say to him, We have here but five loaves and two fishes.

And they all ate and were satisfied: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

And they that had eaten were about five thousand, beside women and children.

And the disciples seeing him walking on the sea, were troubled, saying, It is an apparition: and they cried out for fear.

And when they were come into the vessel, the wind ceased.

Then they that were in the vessel, came and worshiped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

And having crossed over, they came into the land of Gennesaret.

And when the men of that place had knowledge of him, they sent out into all that country round about, and brought to him all that were diseased; And besought him,

that they might touch but the hem of his garment: and as many as touched were made perfectly whole.

But those things which proceed out of the mouth, come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

So that the multitudes wondered, seeing the dumb to speak, the disabled whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

Then Jesus calling his disciples to him said, I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days, and have nothing to eat: and I am not willing to send them away fasting, lest they faint in the way.

They said, Seven, and a few small fishes. And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass.

And they all ate and were satisfied, and they took up of the fragments that remained seven baskets full.

And they that had eaten were four thousand men, besides women and children.

And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.

And they reasoned among themselves, saying, We have taken no bread.

Then they understood, that he did not bid them beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Saducees.