Feeding of Five Thousand
Historical Analysis: Feeding of Five ThousandSummary as it appears in the Gospels Mark (6:31-44); Matthew (14:13-21); Luke (9:10-17); John (6:1-14) The Feeding of Five Thousand begins with a large crowd following Jesus to a deserted place. When Jesus notices the crowd he begins teaching them. The disciples then suggest that Jesus dismiss the crowd because it was getting late and the crowd needed to buy something to eat. Jesus did not wish to dismiss the crowd so he told the disciples to feed the crowd themselves. The disciples then said that they did not have enough money to buy the crowd food but they had five loaves of bread and two fish. Jesus then told the disciples to have the crowd sit on the grass and Jesus then broke the bread and fish and gave it to the disciples to distribute; everyone ate and everyone was filled. All four gospels almost gave the same exact story but John's had two extra details. First, John's version (Jn 6:1-14) mentioned that Jesus tested Philip by asking him "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?" despite the fact that Jesus already knew what he was going to do (Jn 6:5-6). Philip's response was "Two hundred days' wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have
It is likely that the early Christian church was embarrassed by their followers not realizing who Jesus was before his death even though they were ample situations for them to realize who Jesus really was. The Feeding of Five Thousand was an opportunity for the people to see what the power of God can do yet they were still unbelievers as proved by the story of the Bread in the Wilderness. The meet the criteria for historicity the passage must have multiple independent attestation, coherence, discontinuity, embarrassment, and necessary explanation. The Feeding of Five Thousand appears in all four gospels however only two of these can be considered independent sources because Matthew and Luke are believed to have used Mark as a source. It sets us in the presence of Jesus himself . Jesus then does the same with the wine and said it was his blood. although you have seen [me], you do not believe" and they reply "Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph? Do we not know his father and mother? Then how can he say, 'I have come down from heaven'?" (Jn 6:42). It is difficult as I said before when skepticism is involved. the story becomes part of the sacrament, its words become living bread that satisfies our deepest hunger and gives us strength to make it home" (Williamson 128). The story of the Bread in the Wilderness comes after the story of the Feeding of Five Thousand which means that the feeding of many seemed far fetched to the people of Jesus' time. If strange things didn't happen, perhaps the world, let alone the universe, would not even exist. In the other three gospels, the disciples just say that they have a total of five loaves and two fish rather than the food coming from a particular source. The manna story parallels with the idea of feeding many people however it has one major difference other than that Jesus wasn't around when the manna even took place.
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