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Jesus feeds 5000 plus people

Jesus feeds five thousand

Jesus feeds 5000 men plus women and children possibly on the way to a Passover Feast in Jerusalem.

Jesus was speaking to the crowd that was there yet He was teaching His own inner twelve at the same time.

The event stars of with Jesus planning to debrief his apostles who had just come back from a mission

This was the second to last Passover Feast before his Crucifixion at the next Passover.



Background Reading:

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

10 When the apostles returned, they reported to Jesus what they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew by themselves to a town called Bethsaida, 11 but the crowds learned about it and followed him. He welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing.

12 Late in the afternoon the Twelve came to him and said, "Send the crowd away so they can go to the surrounding villages and countryside and find food and lodging, because we are in a remote place here."

13 He replied, "You give them something to eat."

They answered, "We have only five loaves of bread and two fish—unless we go and buy food for all this crowd." 14 (About five thousand men were there.)

But he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each." 15 The disciples did so, and everybody sat down. 16 Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples to set before the people. 17They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Luke 9:10—17
also see: Matthew 14:13—21 , Mark 6:36—44 and John 6:1—15

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