Posts with the tag “miracle”

“Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. They all ate and were satisfied. They picked up twelve baskets full of leftover pieces.” – Matthew 14:19-20 It’s one of the most familiar miracles in all of Scripture, but sometimes we’re so used to it that we forget just how staggering it really is. Thousands of people sitting on a hillside, hungry and tired after fol...  Read More

“They said to him, ‘We have only five loaves here and two fish.’” – Matthew 14:17 There’s a moment in the Gospels where Jesus feeds thousands of people with just five loaves of bread and two fish. You may have heard the story before. It’s one of the most famous miracles in the Bible, and for good reason. But the part that often gets overlooked is how it all started. It didn’t begin with Jesus snap...  Read More

“They said to him, ‘We have only five loaves here and two fish.’” – Matthew 14:17 When we hear the story of Jesus feeding the five thousand, our attention usually lands on the miracle itself. We marvel at how so little became so much. We talk about Jesus’ compassion or the disciples’ doubts. But today, let’s zoom in on someone else. Someone easy to miss in the crowd. A boy. He was just one among t...  Read More

"Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, he blessed them and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds." - Matthew 14:19 One of the most well-known miracles in Scripture is the feeding of the five thousand. It is the only miracle, outside the resurrection, that is recorded in all four gospels. That tells us something. It mat...  Read More