Ashes to Alleluia: Daily Scripture for Lent is a brief daily podcast offering the simple gift of God’s Word during the season of Lent. Each episode begins with a quiet invitation to pause and take one deep breath, followed by the reading of Scripture appointed for the day, and concludes with a short blessing. There is no commentary- only space to listen, receive, as we walk together from repentance toward resurrection through these forty days.

Mark 6:32-44

6:32 And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves.  6:33 Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. 6:34 As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd, and he began to teach them many things. 6:35 When it grew late, his disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is now very late; 6:36 send them away so that they may go into the surrounding country and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”  

6:37 But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” 

They said to him, “Are we to go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?”

6:38 And he said to them, “How many loaves have you? Go and see.” When they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”

6:39 Then he ordered them to get all the people to sit down in groups on the green grass. 6:40 So they sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties. 6:41 Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before the people, and he divided the two fish among them all.  6:42 And all ate and were filled, 6:43 and they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish.

Mark 6:44 Those who had eaten the loaves numbered five thousand men.