“You Give Them Something to Eat”
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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What’s your greatest need? Do you feel spiritually confused, lost, and alone? Take a closer look at Jesus’ compassion for wandering, hungry, seeking souls. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg explains how you can have your deepest needs satisfied.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . What's your greatest need? |
| 0:28.6 | Are you feeling spiritually confused and you need answers? |
| 0:32.2 | Or maybe you feel lost and alone and need a friend? |
| 0:36.1 | Today on Truth for Life weekend, |
| 0:37.7 | Alastairbeg takes a closer look |
| 0:39.7 | at Jesus' compassion for hungry, wandering souls, |
| 0:44.4 | and he explains how you can have your deepest needs satisfied. |
| 0:53.4 | We turn now to Mark Chapter 6 and to another unexpected response on the part of Jesus. |
| 1:00.6 | We might even say that it was an unwelcome response, at least from the disciples' perspective. |
| 1:06.6 | I'm referring now to verse 37, I'll point it out to you and then we'll come back to it. |
| 1:11.3 | Jesus answered them, you give them something to eat. |
| 1:17.0 | And the fact of the matter is they couldn't, but as we're going to see, they did. |
| 1:22.7 | And in that paradox, there is a lesson for us. |
| 1:27.3 | What I'd like to do is to simply follow along with you in the |
| 1:32.5 | narrative as it is before us. But we know that when we come to a portion of Scripture like |
| 1:39.0 | this, it sets within a context and an immediate and a wider context. And without being unduly arduous |
| 1:47.0 | in tackling this, let me just suggest to you that if you turn back a page to verse 7 through |
| 1:55.0 | verse 13, then you will have the immediate context for what follows in verse 30. |
| 2:03.8 | In verse 7, calling the 12 to him, he sent them out. |
| 2:12.0 | Mark has been making this clear from the very beginning of his gospel. |
| 2:15.4 | In chapter 1, you need to turn to it. |
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