Passage · Old Testament
2 Kings 4:42-44
2Kgs.4.42-2Kgs.4.44
Explore this passage in the graph42A 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 this passage at the publisher: Read in NIV · Read in ESV
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The feeding of the five thousand echoes 2 Kings 4:42-44
Strong allusion or echoMedium confidenceElisha 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.
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