Matthew 14:15

“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’

Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

Send them away, that they may go into the surrounding country and villages, and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.”

Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, “Where did you come from?” They said, “From the land of Canaan, to buy food.”

You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not.

When she came to the man of God to the hill, she caught hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to thrust her away; but the man of God said, “Leave her alone; for her soul is troubled within her; and Yahweh has hidden it from me, and has not told me.”

To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don’t be deaf to me, lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.

Don’t curse the king, no, not in your thoughts; and don’t curse the rich in your bedroom: for a bird of the sky may carry your voice, and that which has wings may tell the matter.

but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

Yes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

“ ‘I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause evil animals to cease out of the land. They will dwell securely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.

I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.

Jesus summoned his disciples and said, “I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away fasting, or they might faint on the way.”

The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”

They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

The multitude rebuked them, telling them that they should be quiet, but they cried out even more, “Lord, have mercy on us, you son of David!”

His disciples said to him, “You see the multitude pressing against you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?”

If I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way, for some of them have come a long way.”

His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?”

He spoke to them openly. Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.

But he, turning around, and seeing his disciples, rebuked Peter, and said, “Get behind me, Satan! For you have in mind not the things of God, but the things of men.”

He rose up from the synagogue, and entered into Simon’s house. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a great fever, and they begged him for her.

The day began to wear away; and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the multitude away, that they may go into the surrounding villages and farms, and lodge, and get food, for we are here in a deserted place.”

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”

But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”

yet because this widow bothers me, I will defend her, or else she will wear me out by her continual coming.’ ”

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?”

So when they got out on the land, they saw a fire of coals there, with fish and bread laid on it.

Peter took him aside, and began to rebuke him, saying, “Far be it from you, Lord! This will never be done to you.”

When his friends heard it, they went out to seize him; for they said, “He is insane.”

But he turned and rebuked them, “You don’t know of what kind of spirit you are.