Hey, church family, it is Devo Time.

If you've got your Bible, we're going to be in Matthew chapter 14, day two of no doubt, but hope for football.

We're going to have a little jag season, hopefully, this year.

So anyway, if you got your Bible, Matthew chapter 14, we'll pick it up in verse 13.

Part of the reason I'm doing this is kind of a follow-up to what I preached on a few weeks ago in John

chapter 6.

If we remembered in John 6, Jesus does the crazy, I'm the bread of life talk.

You must eat my flesh, drink my blood.

It came on the heels of two big miracles, came on the heels of feeding of the 5,000, which we're going to

talk about today, and walking on the water. And so I just wanted to take a minute and do a deep

dive into the feeding of the 5,000. This miracle shows up in all four Gospels, which is kind of rare.

And when you look at it, part of what you've got to understand about the Gospels, which is kind of rare. And when you look at it, part of what you've got to understand

about the Gospels, we have four different accounts of the life of Jesus. Two of them are

eyewitnesses that wrote the accounts. One of them interviewed an eyewitness and another one

interviewed a whole bunch of eyewitnesses.

And so we get four different accounts, and each of the accounts are written two different audiences,

like a Gentile audience, a Roman audience, a Jewish audience.

And so the best way to think about it is the events in and of themselves did not change.

They were not different, but the accounts of the events just tend to highlight some different details.

Like when you watch your football team play, if you see the highlights the next day on ESPN,

they may decide to show one set of highlights, whereas CBS

sports may show another set of highlights, depending on their audience, et cetera. And so that's the

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