1. After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee (or, Lake Tiberias).
2. Many people followed him because they saw the miracles he did to heal the sick.
3. Jesus went up on a hill and sat down there with his followers.
4. It was almost the time for the Jewish Passover Feast.
5. When Jesus looked up and saw a large crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough bread for all these people to eat?”
6. (Jesus asked Philip this question to test him, because Jesus already knew what he planned to do.)
7. Philip answered, “Someone would have to work almost a year to buy enough bread for each person to have only a little piece.”
8. Another one of his followers, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said,
9. “Here is a boy with five loaves of barley bread and two little fish, but that is not enough for so many people.”
10. Jesus said, “Tell the people to sit down.” There was plenty of grass there, and about five thousand men sat down there.