Jesus spent all day preaching
and talking to the people. There must
have been about 5000 people altogether
on the hillside, outside the villages.
They had all listened to every word he
spoke but now the sun was setting and
people realised how hungry they had become.
Jesus friends suggested that they should
send the people away to get their own food,
but Jesus didn't want to. He wanted to feed
them all where they were. Looking around,
the friends had nothing themselves that
they could hand out, so they asked some
of the crowd it they had any food.
One small boy gave Jesus his lunch. It
was not much, just 5 small loaves and 2
fishes. Nobody else had anything to give.
The crowd sat down expectantly, as Jesus
blessed the food and thanked God for giving
it. Then he gave it to his friends to pass
round the crowd.
To everyone's surprise, the 5 loaves
and 2 fish could be shared amongst all
the 5000 people. But not only that, there
were enough leftovers to fill 12 baskets.
