And He said to them, “Let’s go on to the neighboring villages so that I may preach there too. This is why I have come.”

He also appointed 12—He also named them apostles—to be with Him, to send them out to preach,

Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves. He kept giving them to His disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all.

Then He commanded the crowd to sit down on the ground. Taking the seven loaves, He gave thanks, broke the loaves, and kept on giving them to His disciples to set before the people. So they served the loaves to the crowd.

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.

While He was in Bethany at the house of Simon who had a serious skin disease, as He was reclining at the table, a woman came with an alabaster jar of pure and expensive fragrant oil of nard. She broke the jar and poured it on His head.

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

Then He said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.