storicity. The meet the criteria for historicity the passage must have multiple independent attestation, coherence, discontinuity, embarrassment, and necessary explanation. In the case of the Feeding of Five Thousand, all criteria can be met.
             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. Based on the extreme similarity between Matthew and Luke's version to that of Mark's in addition to the time period in which each go
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