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Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, Jesus gave thanks and broke them. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve baskets full of broken pieces that were left over.
Jerome: "Each of the Apostles fills his basket of the fragments left by his Saviour, that these fragments might witness that they were true loaves that were multiplied." [4] Chrysostom: "For this reason also He caused twelve baskets to remain over and above, that Judas might bear his basket. He took up the fragments, and gave them to the ...
After the meal, the fragments of the barley loaves which were left over were collected by the disciples and found to have filled twelve baskets. According to the Pulpit Commentary , "the number 'twelve' naturally suggests that each one of the twelve apostles had been employed in the collection of the fragments", [ 27 ] although at this stage in ...
Jesus fed Jewish listeners in Mark 6 and he most probably feeds a gentile crowd here, [12] although C. M. Tuckett argues that it is not certain that the crowd in chapter 8 is a gentile gathering. [22] Jesus refuses to perform a miracle for the Pharisees, who ask for one, but performs miracles for the Gentiles, who do not.
The table lays out a still-life meal with the basket of food teetering over the edge. In the Gospel of Mark (16:12) Jesus is said to have appeared to them "in another form", which may be why he is depicted beardless here, as opposed to the bearded Christ in Calling of St Matthew , where a group of seated money counters is interrupted by the ...
The painting by Raphael (top) shows Jesus in the boat and depicts the first miracle, while the painting by Duccio (bottom) shows Jesus on the shore and depicts the second miracle. The miraculous catch of fish , or more traditionally the miraculous draught of fish(es) , is either of two events commonly (but not universally) [ 1 ] considered to ...
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus says: "No one, when he has lit a lamp, puts it in a cellar or under a basket, but on a stand, that those who come in may see the light. The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
The title "Bread of Life" (Ancient Greek: ἄρτος τῆς ζωῆς, artos tēs zōēs) given to Jesus is based on this biblical passage which is set in the gospel shortly after the feeding the multitude episode (in which Jesus feeds a crowd of 5,000 people with five loaves of bread and two fish), after which he walks on the water to the ...