In the feeding of the five thousand, Jesus used five loaves and two fish. According to the Gospel accounts, Jesus had compassion on the large crowd of people who had gathered to hear him and had been with him for many hours, and he asked his disciples to find food for them. All they could find were five loaves of bread and two fish, but Jesus blessed the food, broke it and gave it to the disciples to distribute to the people. To their amazement, everyone was fed and there were even twelve baskets of leftovers.