Feeding the Five Thousand

Plain English Version (PEV)

Mrk 6:30–44

30 Then they came to the land again, to the country called Gennesaret, and they tied up the boat.
31 A lot of people saw Jesus getting out of the boat and they knew who he was,
32 so they ran around everywhere to the sick people in that country and carried them on swags to Jesus.
33 As Jesus went into communities and towns, people carried their sick ones to the middle of the town and put them on the ground, so Jesus could see them. Those sick people asked Jesus if they could touch his clothes, and everyone that touched his clothes got better.

10 Jesus said to him, “Some people don’t want me. It is like they are dead to me. So those people can bury the dead bodies of their own people. But you come and follow me.”
11 Another man said to Jesus, “Yes Sir, I will follow you, but first I want to go back home and say goodbye to all my family.”
12 Jesus said, “Don’t think about going back. It’s like a man that is driving something, he has to look ahead, not backwards. Well, you are like that man. You have to follow me and look at me. If you look back, like you think about the things you left behind, you are not the right person to join God’s family.”