The Feeding of the Five Thousand may well be the most difficult miracle in the Gospels with which we have to deal.  And yet it is the one miracle that is most firmly anchored in the Gospels.  Of all the miracles which Jesus performed, only this one appears in all four of the Gospels!  There must be some strong tradition behind it.  The least one can say is that Jesus was the kind of Man about whom His friends could hardly talk except in terms of miracles.  Presbyterian Kenneth Foreman, commenting on this miracle, asks us to note ...the casual, offhand, quiet way in which he did these things, the apparently trivial uses to which he put his great powers.  Getting more wine for a party, healing a sick boy, getting a lifetime panhandler off the relief rolls, feeding a lot of stupid people. 

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