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Bob Utley · Citado em PreceptAustin
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Utley - They did not even have enough for themselves. Jesus was using this opportunity to show the disciples that what they have was enough and more if it was given to Him and if they trust Him! As
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Utley writes that "This was the true purpose of many of His miracles. Compassion for the needy and the desire to build the faith of His disciples were the twin motivations of the miracles."
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Utley has an interesting note - The normal position of prayer for the Jews was with the eyes and hands lifted up to heaven. It was unusual for them to kneel to pray. Our modern practice of bowing our heads and closing our eyes comes from the parable of the Pharisee and the sinner. If we are going to bow our head and close our eyes, to be truly biblical we should also beat our breasts (cf. Luke 18:9–14)! Blessed (2127)(eulogeo from eu = good + lógos = word; see cognates eulogetos and eulogia) means speak good or well. When eulogeo is used by men toward men it means to speak well of with praise and thanksgiving (English Eulogy = an address in praise for one deceased). To say good or positive things. Eulogeo can be from men to God, from men to men, and from God to men. When God blesses men He grants them favor and confers happiness upon them. NET Note - Gave thanks (NET translation = looking up to heaven he gave thanks and broke them) adds a note of gratitude to the setting. The scene is like two other later meals: Luke 22:19 (eucharisteo) and Lk 24:30 (eulogeo). Jesus gives thanks to God "with respect to" the provision of food. The disciples learn how Jesus is the mediator of blessing. John 6 speaks of Him in this scene as picturing the "Bread of Life." ESV Study Bible - With the exception of “looked up,” a praying gesture, all of these actions (taking, said a blessing, broke, gave) are found in the accounts of the Last Supper (Mt. 26:26; Mk 14:22; Lk 22:19; cf. also 1 Cor 11:23-24). And breaking (klao) the loaves He gave them to the disciples (mathetes), and the disciples gave them to the crowds - A banquet with 5 bagels and 2 sardines! Brian Bell says the disciples (and us today) are not manufacturers, but are only distributors. The miracle took place in Jesus hands, not the hands of the disciples.This feeding of the multitude surely recalls the Lord's feeding of the children of Israel in the wilderness. 🙏 THOUGHT - Jesus provided extravagantly, yet simply. As long as He was making food miraculously, He could have provided steak and lobster and any number of other great things. But He simply gave people bread and fish. When Jesus provides, don’t be surprised if He provides simply. The assurance that Jesus can provide—even miraculously—for all of our needs should be precious to us; it was to the earliest Christians. On the walls of the catacombs, and other places of early Christian art, loaves and fishes are common pictures.(Guzik)
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Utley - This statement is used in the Septuagint (i.e. the Greek translation of the OT) for the OT people of God being filled by the manna and quail (cf. Ps. 78:29; 105:40). This OT theme is developed in John 6 where Jesus fulfills the rabbinical expectation of providing food as Moses did. Jesus is the new Moses; His deliverance is the new exodus; and He brings the new age of abundance (cf. Ps. 132:15; Isa. 49:10). Spurgeon on THE EATING. The disciples distributed the bread and the fish as quickly as they could and the people began to eat. They all ate of the provision and they were all filled. Now, what should every soul, here, conclude, but this—if Jesus has provided spiritual meat, He has not provided it to be looked at. He has not set it before us that we may merely hear about it. He has provided it that it might all of it be eaten. What is there for me? Lord, I am hungry, grant me a meal. O, souls, if you would hear sermons with the view of knowing what there is in them for yourselves—that you might feed upon them—what blessed work it would be to preach to you! (The Miracle of the Loaves) They picked up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve full baskets.- The 12 baskets full ensures that Jesus would feed His own men. Nothing was wasted. Note that this miracle does not describe the crowds reaction and therefore is meant primarily for the edification and encouragement of the 12 disciples. 🙏 THOUGHT - God will shatter the pint-sized expectations of what His followers can do if they would learn to bring Him what they have already been given. “Little is much when God is in it.” When Christians are willing to offer their lives sacrificially, relinquishing their hold on whatever God has given them in terms of time, money, talents, etc., God will use these ordinary things to create extraordinary things. Christians must never believe their resources are too little to serve God. God delights in taking a humble, seemingly insignificant person and using him or her for His glory (see 1 Corinthians 1:27). (Gotquestions) Baskets (2894)(kophinos borrowed in Latin cophinus, and in English as coffin) a wicker basket typically used by Jews for carrying along Levitically clean food and apparently smaller than the (spuris) which was a quite different Greek word used in Mt 15:37; and the distinction is maintained in Mt 16:9, 10.. All uses describe the 12 baskets of broken pieces of bread after the feeding of the 5000. In both Matthew and Mark when Jesus describes these events He uses these two words with the same distinction (Mark 8:19-20+.; Matt. 16:9-10+). As
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Utley - SPECIAL TOPIC: THE NUMBER TWELVE Twelve has always been a symbolic number of organization 1. outside the Bible a. twelve signs of the Zodiac b. twelve months of the year 2. in the OT a. the sons of Jacob b. reflected in (1) twelve pillars of the altar in Exod. 24:4 (2) twelve jewels on the high priest’s breastplate in Exod. 28:21 (3) twelve loaves of bread in the holy place of the tabernacle in Lev. 24:5 (4) twelve spies sent into Canaan in Num. 13 (5) twelve rods (tribal standards) at Korah’s rebellion in Num. 17:2 (6) twelve stones of Joshua in Josh. 4:3, 9, 20 (7) twelve administrative districts in Solomon’s administration in 1 Kgs. 4:7 (8) twelve stones of Elijah’s altar to YHWH in 1 Kgs. 18:31 3. in the NT a. twelve apostles chosen b. twelve baskets of bread (one for each Apostle) in Matt. 14:20 c. twelve thrones on which NT disciples sit (referring to the 12 tribes of Israel) in Matt. 19:28 d. twelve legions of angels to rescue Jesus in Matt. 26:53 e. the symbolism of Revelation (1) 144,000 (12x12) in 7:4; 14:1, 3 (2) twelve stars on the woman’s crown in 12:1 (3) twelve gates, twelve angels reflecting the twelve tribes in 21:12 (4) twelve foundation stones of the new Jerusalem and on them the names of the twelve Apostles in 21:14 (5) twelve thousand stadia in 21:16 (size of new city, New Jerusalem) (6) twelve gates of pearl in 21:21 (7) trees in new Jerusalem with twelve kinds of fruit (one each month) in 22: Matthew 14:21 There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children. NET Matthew 14:21 Not counting women and children, there were about five thousand men who ate. NLT Matthew 14:21 About 5,000 men were fed that day, in addition to all the women and children! ESV Matthew 14:21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children. NIV Matthew 14:21 The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children. GNT Matthew 14:21 οἱ δὲ ἐσθίοντες ἦσαν ἄνδρες ὡσεὶ πεντακισχίλιοι χωρὶς γυναικῶν καὶ παιδίων. KJV Matthew 14:21 And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. YLT Matthew 14:21 and those eating were about five thousand men, apart from women and children. ASV Matthew 14:21 And they that did eat were about five thousand men, besides women and children. CSB Matthew 14:21 Now those who ate were about 5,000 men, besides women and children. NKJ Matthew 14:21 Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children. NRS Matthew 14:21 And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children. about: Joh 6:10 Ac 4:4,34 2Co 9:8-11 Php 4:19 THE FEEDING OF MORE THAN 5000 "The feeding of 5,000 constitutes yet another of Jesus' messianic "signs," placing Jesus in the line of God's provision of manna to Israel in the wilderness through Moses (cf John 6:30-31+)." (Harmony of the Gospels) There were about five thousand men who ate, besides women and children - Matthew's account indicates that there were many more than 5000 who dined with Jesus hat night. He numbers the men at about 5000 but adds women and children which would suggest the crowd was closer to 15-20 thousand (or more). 🙏 THOUGHT - This large crowd partook of the physical bread Jesus gave them, but as John explains the majority refused the spiritual bread that He offered to them when He explained He was the Bread of Life. John records one of the more tragic verses in the Bible " As a result of this (JESUS' TEACHING HE WAS THE "BREAD OF LIFE") many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore." (John 6:66). NET Note - The Greek word here is anēr (men), meaning “adult male” (BDAG 79 s.v. 1). According to Matt 14:21, Jesus fed not only five thousand men, but also an unspecified number of women and children.
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Utley adds that straining "comes from Greek into English as “torture.” It was hard rowing against the wind." Alan Carr - He Was Watching 1. He saw their labor - (Toiling = Torture basanizo) This describes our trials sometimes. He knows the load you bear - Heb 4:14-16; 1 Cor. 10:13; 1 Peter 5:7 2. He saw their opposition - Contrary = In the face! He knows what you are fighting against right now! - Job 23:10; Psa. 1:6; Psa. 139:1-12 God knows what He is doing! Our job is to submit to Him and allow Him His way in our lives - Rom. 8:28, 2 Cor. 4:17. Grandma and "Has it come to that?" It always does! It might as well start there! He is absolute Sovereign and He never makes mistakes! John 6:19+ Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and drawing near to the boat; and they were frightened. JESUS OUT FOR AN EARLY MORNING WALK
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Utley - This was another nature miracle of Jesus for the purpose of strengthening the disciples’ faith. They witnessed His power and authority in many different ways. But they still did not understand; they were still afraid.