STUDY. The Loaves and Fishes. By Fabian Massa.

Translated from Spanish to English with Google Translator.

Chapter VI of the Gospel of St. John, the Bible tells us that Jesus had gone to the other shore of the Sea of ​​Galilee and a large crowd along to listen. In the evening Jesus had compassion on the crowd because he had not eaten, so he ordered his disciples to feed them. There he made the Lord the miracle of feeding five thousand men (scholars estimate that with women and children would be a crowd of 15,000 souls) with five barley loaves and two fish (John 6.9).

With what any of us would have done a couple of couches for their bellies, the Lord gave him to eat his fill of all those people and also twelve baskets left over: The little that we can provide is much in the hands of God.

After this, Jesus commanded that go across the lake. The next day, when the crowds realized that the Master and his disciples were gone (John 6.22) many got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

John records in his gospel the following dialogue: