Jesus miraculously fed more than 5,000 people.

John 6:1-15

6 Some time later, when Jesus was in Galilee district, near the time of the Jewish Passover celebration, Jesus went with us disciples by boat and crossed to another place along Galilee Lake. This lake is also called Tiberias Lake. 2 A large crowd of people kept following Jesus on land because they had been seeing the miracles he performed by healing sick people. 3 Jesus went up on the hillside and sat down with us disciples to teach us. 4 Then he looked up and saw a great crowd of people coming toward him. 5 He said to Philip, “Where will we buy food for all these people to eat?” 6 He asked this only to find out if Philip believed what Jesus could do, because Jesus already knew what he himself was going to do. 7 Philip replied to him, “Even if we had the amount of money a man earns in eight months, that would not be enough to buy bread so that each person could have a little bit!” 8 Another one of us disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter’s younger brother, said to Jesus, 9 “There is a boy here who has five small barley loaves and two cooked fish. But ◄they will not help much among so many people!/what good will that do among so many people?► [RHQ]” 10 Jesus said, “Tell the people to sit down!” There was plenty of grass there, so they all sat down comfortably. There were about 5,000 men among the crowd. 11 Then Jesus took the small loaves and the fish and thanked God for them. Then he gave them to us, and we distributed the small loaves and the fish to all the people sitting on the ground. Because God caused the food to keep increasing, everyone ate as much as they wanted. 12 When everyone had all the food they wanted, he said to us disciples, “Gather up the pieces that are left over. Do not let anything be wasted!” 13 So we gathered up the pieces of the small loaves that were left over by those who had eaten. We filled twelve baskets with those pieces!

14 After the people saw that miracle that Jesus had performed, many of them started to say, “Surely this is the prophet like Moses that God promised to send to the world!” 15 So, because Jesus realized that they were about to come and seize him to make him their king, he left them again and went up into the hills by himself.