إنجيل القدّيس لوقا .6-1:3
في السَّنَةِ الخَامِسَةَ عَشْرَةَ مِنْ حُكْمِ طِيبَاريُوسَ قَيْصَر، يَوْمَ كانَ بُنْطُسُ بِيلاطُسُ والِيًا على اليَهُودِيَّة، وهِيرُودُسُ رَئِيسَ رُبْعٍ على الجَلِيل، وفِيلِبُّسُ أَخُوهُ رَئيسَ رُبْعٍ على بِلادِ إِيطُورِيَّةَ وتَراخُونِيتِس، ولِيسَانِيوسُ رَئِيسَ رُبْعٍ على أَبِيلِينَة
في أَيَّامِ حَنَّانَ وقَيَافَا عَظِيمَي الأَحْبَار، كَانَتْ كَلِمَةُ اللهِ إِلى يُوحَنَّا بنِ زَكَرِيَّا في البَرِّيَّة
فأَتَى إِلى كُلِّ جِوَارِ الأُرْدُنِّ يُنَادِي بِمَعْمُودِيَّةِ التَّوْبَة، لِمَغْفِرَةِ الخَطايَا
كمَا هُوَ مَكْتُوبٌ في كِتَابِ أَقْوَالِ آشَعْيَا النَّبِيّ : «صَوْتُ صَارِخٍ في البَرِّيَّة: أَعِدُّوا طَرِيقَ الرَّبّ، وٱجْعَلُوا سُبُلَهُ قَويمَة
كُلُّ وادٍ يُرْدَم، وكُلُّ جَبَلٍ وتَلٍّ يُخْفَض، وتَصِيرُ السُّبُلُ المُلْتَوِيةُ مُسْتَقِيمَة، والأَمَاكِنُ الوَعِرَةُ طُرُقًا سَهْلَة
ويَرَى كُلُّ بَشَرٍ خَلاصَ الله
Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Mark 6:34-44.
When Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.
By now it was already late and his disciples approached him and said, “This is a deserted place and it is already very late.
Dismiss them so that they can go to the surrounding farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
He said to them in reply, “Give them some food yourselves.” But they said to him, “Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of food and give it to them to eat?”
He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out they said, “Five loaves and two fish.”
So he gave orders to have them sit down in groups on the green grass.
The people took their places in rows by hundreds and by fifties.
Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to (his) disciples to set before the people; he also divided the two fish among them all.
They all ate and were satisfied.
And they picked up twelve wicker baskets full of fragments and what was left of the fish.
Those who ate (of the loaves) were five thousand men.