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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals. This really meant “Get us out of the difficulty.” There was no hope that so many of them could get victuals in the villages; but the disciples as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But Jesus said unto them,.... the disciples, they need not depart; meaning so long as he was with them, who had power enough to provide a sufficient meal for them, as well as by a word speaking, to heal their diseases; however, to try their faith, and make way for the working of the following miracle, he says to them, give ye them to eat; such...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat. Christ seemed to say to his disciples, “If you only exercise the power that is within your reach, with Me in your midst, you are equal to this emergency: ‘Give ye them to eat.’ “
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat. “You do not know what you can do, seeing I am with you,” the Lord answered. “You can feed them all.” O Christian church, never give up the most difficult problem. It may be worked out. The city may be evangelized, crowded as it is; the nations may to brought to Christ...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they say unto him,.... In order to excuse themselves, and to show the impossibility of feeding such a large number of people; we have here but five loaves; and these barley ones, coarse bread; and two fishes; small ones, which were dried and salted, and fit for present eating; which they either brought along with them for their own...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. He said, Bring them hither to me. “They are little enough in your hands, but they will be ample when they get into mine.” When everything that we have is in the hands of Christ, it is wonderful how much he can make of it. Bring your talent to the Lord Jesus, be it never so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes. He said, Bring them hither to me. He will not work without us. Whatever little gift or ability we have must be consecrated. Christ could easily have made loaves and fishes without taking their little stock, but that is not his way of working. “Bring what you have hither to me.”...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He said, bring them hither to me. The loaves and the fishes, signifying that they were sufficient; or that he would make them so: this he said, to try their faith in him, their obedience to him, and their liberality to others: and indeed, the best way to have an increase of temporal supplies, is to bring what we have, and put it into Christ's...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass,.... The other evangelists say, that he ordered the disciples to cause the people to sit down; both no doubt were done: the multitude were commanded to sit down by Christ, which, without his orders, they would never have done; and the disciples were enjoined to place them in form, by...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, — It must have been a beautiful sight to see those thousands of men, women, and children at once obeying his command. There were five loaves and two fishes, — probably five small barley cakes and a couple of sardines; so the people might have said, “What is the use of such a multitude...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. Much more than they began with; for it is a law of the Heavenly Kingdom that he who gives to God shall be no loser; his five loaves and two fishes shall...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude. And they did all eat and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full. And they that had...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they did all eat,.... Christ and his twelve disciples, and the five thousand men, with the women and children, of the five loaves and two fishes; everyone had their portion, and were filled; they were satisfied, they had a full meal, they had enough, and to spare; see 2 Chronicles 31:10 which the Targumist paraphrases thus. "And Azariah said...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men,.... The word "about", is omitted in the Vulgate Latin, in Munster's Hebrew Gospel, and in the Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions, which expressly say there were so many. A large number indeed, to be fed with five loaves and two fishes! besides women and children; who were not taken into the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children. And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. He always takes the heavier task upon himself. They may go off by themselves, but he will remain to send the multitudes...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples,.... As soon as ever he had wrought the above miracle, and perceived that the people were so convinced by it, of his being the Messiah, that they were determined, whether he would or not, to set him up for a temporal king, to deliver them from the Roman yoke; which they doubted not he was able to do,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray. It was a very busy day that he had had. If you read the narrative for yourself you will be astonished at the number of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And straightway Jesus constrained his disciples to get into a ship, and to go before him unto the other side, while he sent the multitudes away. Straightway is a business word: Jesus loses no time. No sooner is the banquet over than he sends off the guests to their homes. While they are well fed he bids them make the best of their way home. He who...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he had sent the multitudes away,.... Had ordered them at least to go away; for, it seems, according to John 6:22 that they did not in general disperse: there was a large body of them that continued upon the spot all night, expecting his return; in which being disappointed, they took shipping, and came to Capernaum. He went up into a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when he had sent the multitudes away, he went up into a mountain apart to pray: He had had a long day of preaching, and healing, and distributing the bread and fish, and now he closed the day with prayer to his Father. Mat_14:23. And when the evening was come, he was there alone. Dr. Watts was right in saying to his Lord, — “Cold mountains,...