Feeding of the 5,000

What were some of the lessons from the Feeding of the 5,000? 1) He taught them spiritual needs were just as important as temporal needs 2) He never worked a miracle except to provide for a genuine need 3) The fishes and loaves were the daily food of the fishermen who lived there by the lake-He provided their daily bread 4) The people gathered the fragments of the blessing they were given to take and share with others 5) He recieved from the Father-imparted to the disciples-who imparted to the people and the people to one another 6) His disiples were used as a channel of communication between Him and the people 7) We (as His followers) can only impart what He gives us.

And they departed into a desert place by ship privately. Mark 6:32 and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities. ......and Jesus went forth, and saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion toward them, and he healed their sick. Matthew 14:13,14 When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we buy bread, that these may eat? And this he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do. Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little. One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many? And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand. John 6:5-10 Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. Luke 9:16 And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. John 6:11 And they did all eat, and were filled. And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes. Mark 6:42,43 And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. Matthew 14:20 When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. John 6:12 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world. When Jesus therefore perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone. John 6:14,15