Read John 6:1-21
6 After this, Jesus went across Lake Galilee
(or, Lake Tiberias, as it is also called). 2A large crowd followed
him, because they had seen his miracles of healing those who were ill. 3Jesus
went up a hill and sat down with his disciples. 4The time for the
Passover Festival was near. 5Jesus looked round and saw that a large
crowd was coming to him, so he asked Philip, “Where can we buy enough food to
feed all these people?” 6(He said this to test Philip; actually he
already knew what he would do.)
7 Philip answered, “For everyone to
have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coinsm
to buy enough bread.”
8 Another of his disciples, Andrew,
who was Simon Peter’s brother, said, 9“There is a boy here who has
five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough
for all these people.”
10 “Make the people sit down,” Jesus
told them. (There was a lot of grass there.) So all the people sat down; there
were about 5,000 men. 11Jesus took the bread, gave thanks to God,
and distributed it to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with
the fish, and they all had as much as they wanted. 12When they were
all full, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces left over; let us not
waste any.” 13So they gathered them all up and filled twelve baskets
with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had
eaten.
14 Seeing this miracle that Jesus
had performed, the people there said, “Surely this is the Prophetn
who was to come into the world!” 15Jesus knew that they were about
to come and seize him in order to make him king by force; so he went off again
to the hills by himself.
16 When evening came, Jesus’
disciples went down to the lake, 17got into a boat, and went back
across the lake towards Capernaum. Night came on, and Jesus still had not come
to them. 18By then a strong wind was blowing and stirring up the
water. 19The disciples had rowed about five or six kilometres when
they saw Jesus walking on the water, coming near the boat, and they were
terrified. 20“Don’t be afraid,” Jesus told them, “it is I!” 21Then
they willingly took him into the boat, and immediately the boat reached land at
the place they were heading for.
Think
A little fish and a little bread is enough to feed 5000.
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