Saturday of Week 5 in Ordinary Time - Mark 8: 1-10

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

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Mark 8: 1-10 - 'The feeding of the four thousand.'

Catechism of the Catholic Church Paragraphs:

- 1329 (in 'The Sacrament of the Lord' Supper') - The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meal, when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread (abbreviated).

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0:00.0	Hi everyone. Welcome back to our logical Bible study podcast. Today we're looking at Mark
0:16.2	Chapter 8 verses 1 to 10. So let's start by having a look at the passage. A great crowd had gathered
0:24.4	and they had nothing to eat. So Jesus called his disciples to him and said to them,
0:30.4	I feel sorry for all these people. They have been with me for three days now and have nothing
0:35.4	to eat. If I send them off home hungry, they will
0:39.2	collapse on the way. Some have come a great distance. His disciples replied, where could anyone
0:46.2	get bread to feed these people in a deserted place like this? He asked them, how many loaves have
0:52.9	you? Seven, they said. Then he instructed the crowd to sit down
0:57.9	on the ground and he took the seven loaves and after giving thanks he broke them and handed them to
1:04.1	his disciples to distribute and they distributed them among the crowd. They had a few small fish as well, and over these he said a blessing and ordered them to be
1:15.1	distributed also.
1:16.9	They ate as much as they wanted, and they collected seven basketfuls of the scraps left
1:22.4	over.
1:24.6	Now there had been about 4,000 people.
1:27.7	He sent them away and immediately getting into the boat with his disciples,
1:32.4	went into the region of Dalmanuther.
1:39.7	So that's our reading for today.
1:42.6	Firstly, I think it's worth with this passage saying a few things up front about the way
1:48.5	some scholars I think have interpreted this passage wrongly.
1:52.4	So firstly, this is the feeding of the 4,000, not the feeding of the 5,000.
1:56.7	They're two separate things.
1:58.3	Earlier in Mark, if you've been following our podcast, the feeding of
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