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 4:42–44A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God bread some of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley, and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”
• Mark 6:38He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go see.” When they knew, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
• Matt 14:17They told him, “We only have here five loaves and two fish.”
• Luke 9:13But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish, unless we should go and buy food for all these people.”
• Ps 78:19Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?
• Mark 8:19When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Twelve.”
• Matt 16:9Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
• Deut 8:8a land of wheat and barley, and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;
• Ps 81:16But he would have also fed them with the finest of the wheat. I will satisfy you with honey out of the rock.”
• 2 Cor 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you through his poverty might become rich.
• Ps 147:14He makes peace in your borders. He fills you with the finest of the wheat.
• 2 Kgs 7:1Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’”
• Ps 78:41They turned again and tempted God, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
• Deut 32:14butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
• John 6:7Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that everyone of them may receive a little.”
• Ezek 27:17Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and honey, and oil, and balm.
• John 11:32Therefore when Mary came to where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.”
• John 11:21Therefore Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you would have been here, my brother wouldn’t have died.
• 1 Kgs 4:28They also brought Barley and straw for the horses and swift steeds to the place where the officers were, each man according to his duty.
• Rev 6:6I heard a voice in the middle of the four living creatures saying, “A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenix of barley for a denarius! Don’t damage the oil and the wine!”

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