The crowd sits in groups across a green hillside, just as Mark describes: “in ranks, by hundreds, and by fifties.” Five thousand men, besides women and children, will eat and be filled.
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Masters/James Tissot/The Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
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Image: Brooklyn Museum, via Wikimedia Commons. The work itself is in the public domain.
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