Once upon a time Jesus and his disciples were traveling in a boat to a quiet place. Many people saw and recognized them, so they ran after them on land. The boat where Jesus and the disciples were in was slowed down because of wind so the people actually got to the other side of shore ahead of them.

         When Jesus and the disciples arrived they noticed the large crowd. Jesus felt love for these people because he knew they needed a teacher and someone to believe in.

         It was starting to get late in the day and none of the people had eaten yet. The disciples came to Jesus and said, "There is no food around here and it’s already getting late. Maybe we should send the people away so they can go to the surrounding towns and get themselves something to eat."

         But Jesus replied, "You give them something to eat." The disciples didn't think that they understood Jesus right, "We can't feed all these people; we would have to work almost a year to pay for all the food." The disciples said shocked.

         While the disciples were talking to Jesus one of the disciples named Andrew noticed a small boy walking by with a small lunch. He stopped the boy and asked him what he had. He quickly ran over to where the disciples were talking to Jesus and said, "Here is a boy with five small loaves of bread and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many people?"

         Jesus smiled and said, "Ask everyone to sit down." There was lots of grass to sit on so everyone was seated, all five thousand of them. After everyone was seated Jesus took the loaves of bread and thanked God for it. Then the disciples passed around the bread and everyone could take as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

         After everyone was full, Jesus asked the disciples to gather all the food that was leftover so nothing would be wasted. After they gathered all the baskets of food they counted them up. There were twelve baskets still full with some bread and fish from the little boys’ small lunch.