The Bible Study Podcast, episode 596.

Today, the Bible Study podcast continues the study of the gospel of Mark with the second part of chapter 6.

Welcome to the Bible Study podcast.

I'm your host, Chris Christensen. We pick up Mark

6 in verse 30. We have two different stories today. Jesus feeds the 5,000, and Jesus walks on water.

Jesus feeds the 5,000 mark 6, verse 30. The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught.

Then, because so many people were coming and going, that they did not even have a chance to eat,

he said to them, come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.

So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place, but many who saw them

leaving, recognized them, and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. When Jesus

landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd.

So he began teaching them many things.

By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him.

This is a remote place, they said, and it's already very late.

Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages

and buy themselves something to eat.

But he answered, you give them something to eat.

They said to him, that would take more than half a year's wages. Are we going to go and spend

that much on bread and give it to them to eat? How many loaves do you have? he asked. Go and see.

When they found out, they said five and two fish. Then Jesus directed them

to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups

of hundreds and 50s, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave

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