how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest and ate the sacred bread—which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests—and also gave some to his companions?”

He instructed them to take nothing for the road except a walking stick: no bread, no traveling bag, no money in their belts.

“You give them something to eat,” He responded.

They said to Him, “Should we go and buy 200 denarii worth of bread and give them something to eat?”

Then they picked up 12 baskets full of pieces of bread and fish.

They observed that some of His disciples were eating their bread with unclean—that is, unwashed—hands.

Then the Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, “Why don’t Your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ritually unclean hands?”

He said to her, “Allow the children to be satisfied first, because it isn’t right to take the children’s bread and throw it to the dogs.”

His disciples answered Him, “Where can anyone get enough bread here in this desolate place to fill these people?”

They had forgotten to take bread and had only one loaf with them in the boat.

They were discussing among themselves that they did not have any bread.

Aware of this, He said to them, “Why are you discussing that you do not have any bread? Don’t you understand or comprehend? Is your heart hardened?

When I broke the five loaves for the 5,000, how many baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”

“Twelve,” they told Him.

“When I broke the seven loaves for the 4,000, how many large baskets full of pieces of bread did you collect?”

“Seven,” they said.

After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

On the first day of Unleavened Bread, when they sacrifice the Passover lamb, His disciples asked Him, “Where do You want us to go and prepare the Passover so You may eat it?”

He said to them, “It is one of the Twelve—the one who is dipping bread with Me in the bowl.

As they were eating, He took bread, blessed and broke it, gave it to them, and said, “Take it; this is My body.”