12. Now the day began to be far spent, and the twelve came up and 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 more than five loaves and two fish, unless perhaps we go and 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.”
15. And they did so, and had them all sit down.
16. And taking the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them and began giving them to the disciples to set before the crowd.
17. And they all ate and were satisfied, and what was left over was picked up by them—twelve baskets of broken pieces.
18. And it happened that while he was praying alone, the disciples were with him. And he asked them, saying, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”
19. And they answered and said, “John the Baptist, but others, Elijah, and others, that one of the ancient prophets has risen.”
20. And he said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” And Peter answered and said, “The Christ of God.”
21. But he warned and commanded them to tell this to no one,
22. saying, “It is necessary for the Son of Man to suffer many things and to be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and to be killed, and to be raised on the third day.