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According to John 20:30-31, Jesus performed numerous miracles daily. An eye witness to thousands of these jaw dropping events, John suggests you would need an entire library devoted to this topic if this were necessary. Nonetheless, only one of Jesus’ miracles is included within each of the four gospels, the feeding of the 5,000. After further examination of this encounter, principles of blessings, giving and multiplication exist.
Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written, John 21:25.
The context of the feeding of the 5,000 starts with an all day teaching session. Consumed by the message on his heart, Jesus loses track of time. Trying to intervene, the disciples suggest sending everyone home before it gets dark. Turning the tables of his team, Jesus commands, “give them something to eat.” Perplexed, the math didn’t add up: 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread for 5,000 men excluding woman and children.
They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over, Matthew 14:20.
The author of Hebrews suggests blessings are accompanied by faith. Without faith, the disciples would not have been able to approach the crowds with their baskets of food. First, Jesus blessed the fish and bread like saying grace. Most Hollywood interpretations portray a scene with Jesus’ blessing/prayer resulting in a pile of bread and fish. A recent sermon I heard claims that this multiplication occurred after each disciple gave food to those who were hungry. This perspective believes that as the disciples got down to their very last scrap of bread and fish, a miraculous multiplication took place. Thus, when blessings are passed on to the less fortunate in faith, the power of multiplication can be unleashed. Trust and obey.
by Jay Mankus
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