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Elisha's loaves
A prophet once fed a hundred men with twenty loaves and had bread left over. Jesus fed thousands with five, and twelve baskets remained.
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42A man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing the man of God twenty loaves of barley bread baked from the first ripe grain, along with some heads of new grain. “Give it to the people to eat,” Elisha said. 43“How can I set this before a hundred men?” his servant asked. But Elisha answered, “Give it to the people to eat. For this is what the Lord says: ‘They will eat and have some left over.’ ” 44Then he set it before them, and they ate and had some left over, according to the word of the Lord. Read the later witness
Why FaithGraph draws this line
The feeding of the five thousand echoes 2 Kings 4:42-44.
Elisha fed a hundred men with twenty barley loaves and had some left over; John's account of five barley loaves feeding five thousand with twelve baskets over follows the same shape on a far larger scale.
Evidence
Other responsible views
- Manna as the primary background. John's own discourse turns to the manna, not to Elisha, so the Elisha echo is a reader's observation rather than John's stated point.
The explanation above is FaithGraph editorial content, not Scripture.
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Jesus walks on the water
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Andrew
Andrew was a fisherman from Bethsaida, the brother of Simon Peter and originally a disciple of John the Baptist. In John's Gospel he follows Jesus after John points Him out as the Lamb of God and then brings his brother Simon to Jesus; in the Synoptics he is called with Peter beside the Sea of Galilee.
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Jesus
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Sea of Galilee
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