Jesus Feeds Five Thousand (6th entry)
After we heard the death of John the Baptist, Jesus and his apostles left in a boat to a remote area to be alone for a while. However, the crowds found out and recognized Jesus and saw him leaving, so people from many towns ran along the shore and got ahead of them. Jesus saw the huge crowd as he stepped back from the boat, and had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So, Jesus welcomed them and taught them about the Kingdom of God, and he also healed those who were sick.
Until late evening, we saw it was getting dark and we were also concern some people will be hungry especially children, so we went to Jesus and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s getting late. Send the crowds away so that they can go to the villages and buy food for themselves.” To our surprise, Jesus answered us, “That isn’t necessary – you feed them.” “But we have work for months to earn enough money to buy food for all these people” we replied. But Jesus said, “How much bread do we have left. Go and find out.” After checking on the amount of food, we went back to Jesus and reported, “We have five loaves of bread and two fish.” We could not get what Jesus was thinking to do, instead of agreeing with us, Jesus said, “Bring them here.”
So, we followed what Jesus told us to do and brought the people to the place Jesus said. As soon as they reached there, then Jesus told the people to sit down on the grass. There were approximately around five thousand men. Jesus took the five loaves of bread and two fish, look up towards heaven, and prayed to God and blessed them. After that, He broke the loaves of bread into pieces and gave the bread to the disciples, who was in charged to distributed it to the people. Everyone in the crowd was fed with as much as they wanted with only five loaves of bread and two fish. Afterwards, we even picked up twelve baskets of leftover bread and fish. About 5,000 men were fed, in addition to all women and children!
It was indeed a very unexpected and another amazing miracle Jesus had done. Feeding a crowd of approximately around five thousand men with only five loaves of bread and two fish.
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(Jesus Feeds Five thousand – Matthew 14:13-21)
(Jesus Feeds Five Thousand – Mark 6:30-44)
(Jesus Feeds Five Thousand – Luke 9:10-17)