John 6:9

Andrew points to a boy's five loaves and two fish, then admits they are nothing against such a crowd. It shows how Jesus uses meager, surrendered resources to do the impossible.

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• 2 Kgs 4:42–44And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley, and full ears of corn in the husk thereof. And he said, Give unto the people, that they may eat.
• Mark 6:38He saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? go and see. And when they knew, they say, Five, and two fishes.
• Matt 14:17And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.
• Luke 9:13But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.
• Ps 78:19Yea, they spake against God; they said, Can God furnish a table in the wilderness?
• Mark 8:19When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
• Matt 16:9Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
• Deut 8:8A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
• Ps 81:16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
• 2 Cor 8:9For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.
• Ps 147:14He maketh peace in thy borders, and filleth thee with the finest of the wheat.
• 2 Kgs 7:1Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
• Ps 78:41Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.
• Deut 32:14Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
• John 6:7Philip answered him, Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a little.
• Ezek 27:17Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.
• John 11:32Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
• John 11:21Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
• 1 Kgs 4:28Barley also and straw for the horses and dromedaries brought they unto the place where the officers were, every man according to his charge.
• Rev 6:6And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.

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