Chap. 6
1 AFterwarde went Iesus ouer the Sea of Galilee, which is called Tyberias.
2 And there followed him a great multitude, because they sawe his myracles, which hee did vpon those that were diseased.
3 And Iesus went vp into the mountaine, and sate their with his disciples.
4 And Easter a feast day of the Iewes was neere.
5 Therefore when Iesus had lift vp his eyes, and sawe that a great multitude came vnto him, hee saieth vnto Phillip, VVhence shall wee buse bread, that these may eate?
6 (Furthermore, hee saide this trying him: for hee himselfe knewe what hee would doe:)
7 Phillip answered him, two hundred pennie woorth of bread are not sufficient for them, that euerie one of them may take a little.
8 One of his disciples said vnto him, Andrew Simon Peters brother,
9 Heere is a lad that hath fiue barly loues, a••d two little fishes, but what are these amongest so many?
10 And Iesus said, Make the men sit downe. And there was much grasse in that place. Therefore the men sate down, in number about fiue thousand.
11 And Iesus tooke the loaues, and hauing giuen thankes, hee gaue to the disciples? and the disciples to them that were set down, and in like sort of the fishes so much as they would.
12 And after they were satisfied, he said vnto his disciples: Gather the fragments which remaine, that nothing bee lost.
13 Therefore they gathered them togeather, and they filled twelue baskets with the fragments, which remained of the fiue barly loaues, to those that had eaten.
1 Afterward went Iesus. VVheras Iohn is wont to gather the wordes and deedes of Christe which the other three had passed ouer: in this place he repeateth an historie of a myracle, which they had set downe, contrary to his custome: but he doth this for a certaine purpose, that he may thence passe ouer vnto Christe his sermon, which hee made the day following in Capernaum: because they were matters which were ioyned together. VVherefore although the other haue this narration aswel as he, yet hath it this peculiar thing, that it tendeth to another end as we shall see. Some say that this was done anone after the death of Iohn Baptist: by which circumstance of time they note the cause of the departure of Christe. For so soone as tyrants haue their handes once imbrewed with blood, they waxe more cruell, euen as the distempera∣ture