g an executioner, he commanded that his head should be
brought in a dish.

6:28. And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish:
and gave to the damsel, and the damsel gave it her mother.

6:29. Which his disciples hearing came, and took his body, and laid it
in a tomb.

6:30. And the apostles coming together unto Jesus, related to him all
things that they had done and taught.

6:31. And he said to them: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a
little. For there were many coming and going: and they had not so much
as time to eat.

6:32. And going up into a ship, they went into a desert place apart.

6:33. And they saw them going away, and many knew: and they ran flocking
thither foot from all the cities, and were there before them.

6:34. And Jesus going out saw a great multitude: and he had compassion
on them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began
to teach them many things.

6:35. And when the day was now far spent, his disciples came to him,
saying: This is a desert place, and the hour is now past:

6:36. Send them away, that going into the next villages and towns, they
may buy themselves meat to eat.

6:37. And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said
to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give
them to eat.

6:38. And he saith to them: How many loaves have you? go and see. And
when they knew, they say: Five, and two fishes.

6:39. And he commanded them that they should make them all sit down by
companies upon the green grass.

6:40. And they sat down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties.

6:41. And when he had taken the five loaves, and the two fishes: looking
up to heaven, he blessed, and broke the loaves, and gave to his
disciples to set before them: and the two fishes he divided among them
all.

6:42. And they all did eat, and had their fill.

6:43. And they took up the leavings, twelve full baskets of fragments,
and of the fishes.

6:44. And they that did eat, were five thousand men.

6:45. And immediately he obliged his disciples to go up into the ship,
that they might go before him over the water to Bethsaida, whilst he
dismissed the people.

6:46. And when he had dismissed them, he went up to the mountain to
pray,

6:47. And when it was late, the ship was in the midst of the sea, and
himself alone on the land.

6:48. And seeing them labouring in rowing, (for the wind was against
them,)