And Jesus said to them: how many loaves do you have? They said: seven, and a few small fish. The inventory for the second feeding: seven loaves and a few small fish, compared to five loaves and two fish in the first feeding. The different numbers communicate that this is a separate event, not a literary doublet of the same story. Both feedings share the same four-fold eucharistic action (took, gave thanks, broke, gave) but the numbers and settings differ.

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