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Hi everyone, welcome to the 
Daily gospel exegesis, thank you

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so much for listening. 
Hope you learned something new 

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about the Bible. 
Today we're looking at John 

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chapter 6 verses 1 to 15. 
That's the Gospel reading. 

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You would hear it? 
Today is mass and this is the 

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feeding of the 5000 John As 
version of that event. 

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Jesus went off to the other side
of the Sea of Galilee or of 

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tiberias and a large crowd. 
Followed him impressed by the 

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signs. 
He gave by curing the sick, 

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Jesus climbed the Hillside and 
sat down there with his 

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disciples, it was shortly before
the Jewish feast of Passover. 

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Looking up, Jesus saw the crowds
approaching and said to Philip 

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where can we buy bread for these
people to eat? 

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He only said this to test 
Philip, he himself knew exactly 

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what he was going to do. 
Philip answered 200. 

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Denarii would only buy enough to
give them a small piece? 

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Each? 
One of his disciples Andrew 

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Simon Peters. 
Brother said, there is a small 

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boy here with five, barley 
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But what is that between? 
So many Jesus said to them, make

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the people sit down. 
There was plenty of grass there 

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and as many as 5,000 men sat 
down, then Jesus Took the loaves

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gave thanks and gave them out to
all who are sitting ready. 

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He then did the same with the 
fish giving out as much as was 

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wanted. 
When they had eaten enough, he 

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said to the disciples pick up 
the pieces left over so that 

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nothing gets wasted. 
So, they picked them up and 

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filled twelve hampers with 
scraps left over from the meal 

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of five barley loaves. 
The people sing the sign that he

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had given said. 
This really is the prophet who 

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is to come into the world. 
Jesus, who could see that they 

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were about to come and take him 
by force and make him a king 

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escaped to the hills by himself.
So we're at John chapter 6, John

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chapter 5, which comes just 
before that, that's red in the 

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fourth week of Lent. 
Now we're up to John chapter 6 

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and we have the feeding of the 
5000, this is an event, which is

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in all four Gospels. 
Now, as you probably know, John 

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typically doesn't include events
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because he feels that there's no
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That's already been covered by 
the other gospel. 

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Authors, he wants to add in new 
things only basically. 

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But this is one of those events 
that he does include even though

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it's been covered by the other 
three gospels. 

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Why does he include the feeding 
of the five thousand? 

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Probably because he considers 
it. 

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So important for understanding 
Jesus, identity, which is what 

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John is trying to emphasize and 
in particular in forms the 

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backdrop for what Jesus will 
say, later in chapter 6 about 

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the Eucharist. 
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the following day, Jesus has an 
interesting conversation about 

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the Eucharist, which is based on
the feeding of the 5,000. 

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So John feels, it's necessary to
include this background. 

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So what we're going to see here 
in the feeding of the 5000 is 

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that John includes some details 
that the others don't have and 

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vice versa. 
Verse 1. 

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Jesus went off to the other side
of the Sea of Galilee. 

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So Jesus has been in Jerusalem 
according to John, and now he 

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travels to Galilee in the north 
and that's where Jesus does most

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of his ministry. 
John only includes this 

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particular event as in the 
feeding of the five thousand but

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we know from the other gospels, 
that around this time, period, 

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Jesus does a whole lot of other 
stuff in the area of Galilee 

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Galilee is where he does most of
his ministry. 

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That's where he's from verse to 
a large crowd. 

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Followed him impressed by the 
signs, he gave by curing the 

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sick. 
Now, we learn from the other 

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gospels that what's been 
happening is Jesus has been out 

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on the boat with on the Sea of 
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With the disciples and he's been
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with them and to rest. 
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they were out in the middle of 
the Sea of Galilee, the crowds 

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have worked out where Jesus is 
where he's probably going to 

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land and they run to the other 
side of the lake. 

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So, they're waiting for Jesus by
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based on what's occurred so far.
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appear that a lot of the crowd. 
Really is just looking for a 

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miracle there, perhaps not 
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Although some of them probably 
are And it's so janja says large

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crowd at this point. 
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it's 5,000 men. 
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least 15,000 people, if you 
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this is a big crowd. 
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Jesus. 
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climbed the Hillside and sat 
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And even today, if you go to the
Sea of Galilee, there's lots of 

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hills surrounding this area. 
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Jesus went up the mountain and 
that might be deliberately 

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trying to recall when Moses went
up the mountain because Jesus is

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depicted as the new Moses in the
Gospels. 

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Now, John doesn't tell us this, 
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tell us that at this point as 
the crowds come up the hill to 

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see Jesus, Jesus has compassion 
on them and he begins to teach 

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them. 
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to get late, meaning that the 
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the villages in time before the 
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So if they want to get food, 
they need to leave soon. 

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That's where the other gospel 
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Tell us about this event. 
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the Jewish feast of Passover. 
Now, why is John mentioned this?

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What's the point of mentioning 
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Well, it will come important 
coming in important later in 

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John, chapter 6, but it could 
also be because around Passover 

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time, just for practical 
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hard to find enough food for 
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everyone is buying food for the 
Passover. 

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So, maybe Jesus is concerned. 
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late, but it's the Passover and 
the people, if they don't move 

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soon, they won't be able to get 
food from the market. 

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But they might be a more 
spiritual reason why John 

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mentions the Passover. 
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here is to unfold the spiritual 
relationship, between Jesus, and

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the Exodus event. 
And the very first Passover, in 

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the book of Exodus, particularly
in terms of providing food in 

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the wilderness. 
We've talked about this on the 

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podcast, a bit. 
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gospels version of The Feeding 
of the 5000, clearly they're 

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supposed to be parallels, with 
feeding the Israelites, in the 

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wilderness with manna, oh, and 
now Jesus feeds these people, 

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which is essentially out in the 
desert area as well. 

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Verse 5 looking up, Jesus saw 
the crowds approaching and said 

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to Philip, where can we buy some
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Now, the fact that John knows 
that Jesus asked, Philip suggest

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that John was an eyewitness. 
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disciples. 
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He says, Jesus asked Philip. 
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disciples, he he's not 
particularly well known, but in 

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this case, Jesus asks Philip And
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He only said this to test 
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what he was going to do. 
So Jesus wants to see, Phillip 

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has enough Faith to know that 
the crowd will be will be 

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provided for its kind of is 
testing. 

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Philip Jesus is saying, I wonder
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response to my question and 
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event, says that Jesus had a 
plan all along. 

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Verse 7 and Phillip replies, 
200. 

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Denarii would only be enough to 
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Each and Denari was a single 
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It could imply that they had 
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ministry. 
Supply of money, that's 

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possible. 
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is that they would need 200 
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order to feed the people just 
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much. 
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hundred denarii in order to feed
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So, if you could say, Phillip 
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answer by having trust in Jesus 
verse 81 of his disciples, 

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Andrew Simon Peters brother. 
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Andrew, and notice how the 
Primacy of Peter is highlighted,

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though, Andrew is always 
referred to in relation to Peter

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because Peter is the most 
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How would you like that, always 
being referred to not as 

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yourself as an individual, but 
in relation to your brother, And

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so, Andrew says, there is a 
small boy here with five, barley

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Loaves and two fish. 
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So many Now, only John tells us 
this detail that there's a small

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boy that gives them the food. 
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loaves. 
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lows, which is typical food for 
poor people. 

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Verse 10. 
Jesus said to them, make the 

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people sit down, so Jesus. 
Here's what he needs to hear. 

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He has this Five Loaves and two 
fish, and Jesus Springs into 

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action. 
He says, get them to sit down 

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and basically he's telling them 
to get ready for a meal in the 

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Greek more literally, it says, 
make the people recline, so he's

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getting them ready for a typical
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There was plenty of grass there,
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down this language of the grass,
is highlighted in the gospel of 

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Mark as well. 
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John is familiar with the gospel
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So, we know from the other 
gospels, that Jesus gets him to 

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sit down in groups and it's a 
pretty big task for the 

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disciples to manage 15,000 
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So this could have taken a 
little while to get people in 

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the groups. 
Verse 11 then Jesus Took the 

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Loaves and gave thanks. 
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for the man presiding over a 
meal to give a blessing and then

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break the food, that was a 
common practice particularly 

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amongst the essence of qumran. 
They would do this for every 

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meal, they would say a blessing 
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So some have said that the 
essence of qumran would not have

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been surprised by Jesus 
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because they were already doing 
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So that's an interesting side. 
Comment about the Essence. 

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So there's more to it, though, 
because for John's readers, when

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Jesus, when John says here, he 
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Thanks obviously for John's 
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They're going to think of the 
Last Supper, the word for gave 

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thanks. 
Here is Eucharist t0. 

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So, they're definitely going to 
be thinking of the Eucharist. 

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And this is basically why John 
includes this story because this

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is a Eucharistic story and John 
is about to go on and tell us 

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lots of specific information 
about the Eucharist. 

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And Jesus gave them out to all 
who are sitting ready. 

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So John doesn't say this but we 
know from the other gospels that

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the disciples distribute the 
food to the groups and then he 

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did the same with the fish but 
notice the bread is described 

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first. 
The bread is the focus, the fish

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is only secondary verse 12, when
they had eaten enough, he said 

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to the disciples pick up the 
pieces left over, so that 

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nothing gets wasted. 
So it's a big meal. 

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And Jesus is thinking 
practically for such a big man. 

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Meal like this. 
The disciples are going to want 

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to collect leftovers so that 
they can use it for their own 

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future meals. 
Now, some Scholars think this 

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might be a deliberate reference 
to the Manna in the wilderness. 

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If you know the story of God, 
feeding the Israelites with the 

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Manna in the wilderness. 
The Israelites are specifically 

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told by God, don't take extra 
food. 

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Don't gather anything extra. 
Just get what you need. 

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But here Jesus says, to the 
disciples, get leftovers, get 

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extra. 
So maybe John is trying to 

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highlight how Jesus is both like
God in providing the manner but 

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also kind of unlike that story 
as well, so that's possible. 

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Other translations have this 
phrase as gather up the 

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fragments left over so that 
nothing may be lost and it might

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be a theological meaning here in
terms of lost referring to 

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salvation, but that's just 
speculation. 

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So they pick them up and filled 
twelve hampers with scraps left 

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over from the meal of five 
barley loaves. 

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So there might be some 
significance to the number 12. 

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Maybe that indicates that God is
going to provide for the 12 

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tribes of Israel. 
May be that God is making a new 

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is rail through the 12 apostles 
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John is saying how amazing this 
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twelve baskets which were 
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loaves. 
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happen? 
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the food gets multiplied. 
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the apostles were given the food
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At the point that Jesus hands it
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miraculous and multiplied. 
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notice though, that Jesus 
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air, he actually takes what's 
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it and that's significant. 
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to this in the Old Testament, 
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Elisha the prophet multiplies, 
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still have some left over. 
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miracle would have made the Jews
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shows that his greater than 
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fuel Loaves and he feeds a 
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he had given and signs is a big 
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If you read the Gospel of John, 
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that are meant to point people 
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as the Son of God. 
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other food sign in the Gospel of
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the wine is Multiplied at the 
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So in both food, miracles, And 
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involving food. 
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Multiply here? 
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multiplies wine. 
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the significance of the 
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into the world. 
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they're talking about the Jews 
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Believe that one day, there 
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they had come to call the 
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And that's predicted in 
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himself says there will be a 
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day. 
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are waiting for this Prophet. 
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the prophet would be the same 
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The crowd is recognizing, the 
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that he's the Messiah. 
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some people at the time of 
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Messiah returned, he would bring
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So, that's an interesting link 
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So they think he's the Messiah 
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that they were about to come and
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King. 
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The Jews of the time believe 
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That's the basic idea. 
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think the Jesus, because he is 
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They think that that's what he's
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So they try to grab him. 
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crowd, and I want to Proclaim 
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And, in fact, on Palm Sunday, he
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The crowds were going about it 
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He doesn't agree with the idea 
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he's not going to accept that 
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ministry. 
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big Riot. 
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He still has some years to do 
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arrested. 
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he's a king, but he doesn't want
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So Jesus withdraws again to the 
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there quickly. 
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that he gives some instructions 
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the disciples to go on ahead 
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while he goes up to the hills 
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them walking on the water. 
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that John narrates so an 
interesting passage 

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particularly, when we combine in
all the information about this 

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event from the other Gospels, So
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references to this, passage that
help us understand Catholic 

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teaching. 
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discussion about Christ, which 
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many Jews and even certain 
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recognizing Jesus. 
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the Messianic, son of David 
promised by God to Israel. 

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Jesus accepted his rightful 
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some reserved because it was 
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contemporaries into human. 
A sense as essentially political

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and this passage in John, 
chapter 6 is the best example of

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where people misunderstand the 
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This is talking about Palm 
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It says, how will your roofs? 
I'm welcomed her Messiah. 

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Although Jesus had always 
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him King, he chooses the time 
and prepares the details for his

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Messianic, entry into the city 
of his father, David and the 

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paragraph goes on from there. 
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later, Jesus does allow himself 
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Sunday. 
So we'll leave it there for 

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today. 
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