“He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?”
But he answered, you give them something to eat. That would take more than half a year's wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat? — you give them something to eat is the commission: Jesus places the responsibility for the crowd's feeding on the disciples. Their immediate response is economic calculation: eight months' wages (two hundred denarii) would be required to feed this crowd a small meal. The disciples have located the problem (insufficient resources) and stated it correctly. What they have not yet grasped is that the resource calculation does not include Jesus.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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