Hungry People

In this lesson we will consider what happens when at the end of a day Jesus and the disciples have over 5000 hungry people before them. The disciples want Jesus to send them away to get something to eat, but instead Jesus asked about the available food among the people. Only five loaves of bread and two fish were found. Here is the report of what happened next: ¹⁸ And he [Jesus] said, “Bring them here to me.” ¹⁹ Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. ²⁰ And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over. ²¹ And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Here is a very small picture of the creative power of Jesus, but it an example of his ability to expand elements of his original creation by providing additional food from spoken words to more than satisfy the multitude of people. In the next lesson we will look at another miracle.