![]() Eph 5: 29-30
After all, no one ever
hated his own body, but he feeds and
cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- for we are members of
his body
John 6: 1-15
After this, Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee (of
Tiberias). A large
crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing on the
sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his
disciples. The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his
eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip,
"Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?" He said this to
test
him, because he himself knew what he was going to do. Philip answered
him, "Two hundred days' wages worth of food would not be enough
for
each of them to have a little. One of his disciples, Andrew, the
brother of Simon Peter, said to him, "There is a boy here who has five
barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?" Jesus
said, "Have the people recline." Now there was a great deal of
grass
in that place. So the men reclined, about five thousand in number. Then
Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to those who
were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they wanted. When they
had had their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather the fragments
left over, so that nothing will be wasted." So they collected them, and
filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley
loaves that had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the
sign he had done, they said, "This is truly the Prophet, the one
who
is to come into the world." Since Jesus knew that they were going to
come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the
mountain alone. |