They said to him: we have only five loaves here and five fish. The disciples' inventory — five loaves and two fish — communicates the hopeless inadequacy of their resources. The only five loaves and two fish is the disciples' honest assessment of what they have: not nothing, but far too little. The inadequacy of the available resources is the necessary context for the miracle that will multiply them.

COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS

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