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the land. And seeing them straining at the oars, for the wind was
against them, at about the fourth watch of the night, He came to
them, walking on the sea; and he intended to pass by them. But
when they saw Him walking on the sea, they supposed that it was a
ghost, and cried out: for they all saw Him and were frightened. But
immediately He spoke with them and said to them, ‘Take courage;
it is I, do not be afraid.’ And He got into the boat with them, and
the wind stopped; and they were greatly astonished, for they had not
gained any insight from the incident of the loaves, but their heart
was hardened.”

They did not learn the lesson of the loaves. So, there is a connection.
The boat ride on the stormy sea was supposed to remind them of the
lessons of the loaves. I don’t want to spend time on the feeding of
the five thousand but I want to give you the lesson. It’s described in
Mark 6:37, “But He answered and said to them, ‘You give them
something to eat!’ And they said to Him, ‘Shall we go and spend
two hundred denari on bread and give them something to eat?’”
There were five thousand people, plus more. “You give them
something to eat.” That was an impossible command. Nobody
could do what Jesus told them to do. They had five biscuits, two
fish and maybe ten thousand people because it was men plus women
and children. It was absolutely impossible to obey God.

That miracle continued and showed how the impossible can become
possible. The simple answer is to bring Jesus into the picture. Mark
6:41-43, “And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking
up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves and He
kept giving them to the disciples to set before them; and He divided
up the two fish among them all. And they all ate and were satisfied.
And they picked up twelve full baskets of the broken pieces, and
also of the fish, and there were five thousand men who ate the
loaves.”

The Lord Jesus took a little boy’s lunch and divided it thirteen ways.
I don’t know if you were holding one thirteenth of a little boy’s
lunch what it would look like. The gospel tells us that the smallest