Most of the time, the story we just heard from John 6 is referred to as “The Feeding of the Five Thousand”. But it is sometimes called "The Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes”. Which, in itself, is an interpretive move. Because it shifts our focus from what happened, which is that all these people got fed, to what Jesus actually did to make that happen.
The presenting problem of the story is the problem of not enough – nowhere near enough. The problem is solved when something very small somehow becomes more than enough to meet the need. Remember, twelve baskets of leftovers!
Doesn’t it make you wonder what it must that have been like...(read more)
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