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Hey there, Sproutes. Today is Thursday, March 28th, 2019. This week on the Catholic Spouts

podcast, we are talking about Jesus Christ as we journey through Lund, but we are talking

particularly about his miracles. We've already talked about his first miracle performed at the wedding feast at Cana,

as well as a couple of his healing miracles. And we're reminded that we need to have faith in Jesus

for him to work miracles in our life. And also that he knows us, he knows our suffering,

and he wants not only our physical healing, but our spiritual

healing as well. Today we are going to talk about another very well-known miracle that's recorded

in several of the Gospels, and that is the multiplication of loaves, or the feeding of the 5,000. In several of the Gospels and a couple of

times in some of the Gospels, Jesus is in the midst of a huge crowd. He has been preaching and

teaching them, healing their sick, and they get to the point where they're in a place far from any market or food

source and everyone's hungry. So Jesus performs a remarkable miracle to feed them. Now the details

of these miracles offer us some beautiful insights into the nature of God and Jesus Christ. So we are going to read about the

miracle of the feeding of the 5,000 taken from the gospel of Matthew. When it was evening, the disciples

came to him and said, this is a deserted place and the hour is now late. Send the crowds away so that they may go into the

villages and buy food for themselves jesus said to them they need not go away you give them

something to eat they replied we have nothing here but five loaves and two fish then he said said to them, bring them here to me. Then he ordered

the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven

and blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds,

and all ate and were filled, and they took up what

was left over of the broken pieces 12 baskets full, and those who ate were about 5,000 men

besides women and children, the gospel of the Lord.

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