The Bible Study podcast, episode 327. Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the book of John with chapter six.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast. I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We continue on with chapter six this week. Jesus feeds the

5,000. Sometime after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of the Sea of Galilee, that is the Sea of

Tiberius, and a great crowd of people followed him because they saw the signs he had performed by

healing the sick. Then Jesus went up on a mountainside and sat down with his disciples.

The Jewish Passover was near. When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him,

he said to Philip, where shall we buy bread for these people to eat? He asked this only to test him,

for he already had in mind what he was going to do. Philip answered him,

it would take more than half a year's

wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite. Another of the disciples, Andrew Simon

Peter's brother, spoke up. Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish,

but how far will that go among so many? Jesus said, have the people sit down. There was plenty of grass in the

place, and they sat down. About 5,000 men were there. Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed

to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish. When they had all

had enough to eat, he said to his disciples, gather the pieces that are left over, let nothing be wasted. So they gathered

them and filled twelve baskets with the pieces of the five barley loaves left over by those who had eaten.

After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, surely this is the prophet who

is to come into the world. Jesus knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force,

withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

Some years back when I was doing a Bible study for this, I think with the Search Bible Study series at my home church,

I was reading one of the commentaries, the one of the Bible commentaries by Berkeley.

And Berkeley, I found to be a

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