14. (There were about 5,000 men there.)Jesus said to his disciples, “Make the people sit down in groups of about fifty each.”
15. After the disciples had done so,
16. Jesus took the five loaves and two fish, looked up to heaven, thanked God for them, broke them, and gave them to the disciples to distribute to the people.
17. They all ate and had enough, and the disciples took up twelve baskets of what was left over.
18. One day when Jesus was praying alone, the disciples came to him. “Who do the crowds say I am?” he asked them.
19. “Some say that you are John the Baptist,” they answered. “Others say that you are Elijah, while others say that one of the prophets of long ago has come back to life.”
20. “What about you?” he asked them. “Who do you say I am?”Peter answered, “You are God's Messiah.”
21. Then Jesus gave them strict orders not to tell this to anyone.
22. He also said to them, “The Son of Man must suffer much and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the teachers of the Law. He will be put to death, but three days later he will be raised to life.”