¹² Now the day began to be far spent, and the twelve came up and^[a] said to him, “Send away the crowd so that they can go into the surrounding villages and farms to obtain lodging and find provisions, because we are here in a desolate place. ¹³ But he said to them, “You give them something to eat!” And they said, “We have no^[b] more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and^[c] 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.”