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title = "Luke 9:10–17"
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date = "2022-11-29"
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### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk9.10-17)
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After their preaching tour, the disciples return to Jesus to tell Him all they
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had done. So Jesus has them go on a retreat to relax and discuss their reports.
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Maybe that was the plan, but it was interrupted by a crowd of people figuring
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out where they went and following them. Instead of getting mad and sending them
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away, though, Jesus welcomes them and begins teaching and healing as He had
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done with everyone.
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After a while, the disciples realize that everyone is starting to get hungry,
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but there isn't enough food to go around. They tell Jesus that it's time for
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everyone to go find food and lodging in the villages and towns that are around,
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but He outrageously tells them to provide food to the crowd. The crowd had
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about 5,000 men, plus women and children, so the five loaves and two fish they
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did have wouldn't go very far. (By the way, what did the disciples think they
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were going to eat if the crowds hadn't showed up? I doubt that was enough for
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13 men, and we know from other accounts that this food came from a boy in the
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crowd to begin with.)
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Jesus prays a blessing over the food and has the disciples distribute it
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anyway. And the food just keeps going until everyone in the crowd has more than
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enough. The leftover pieces that were picked up were many times more than what
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they had started with. I expect it was even harder for Jesus to get away by
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Himself after this. Most of the people in the crowd were surely poor, and
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living "paycheck to paycheck" or worse. Getting more food than you could eat
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would be a special day, and this Jesus guy was just giving it out. Lots of
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people would listen to anything if it meant they'd get to eat afterwards.
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* * *
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Give us this day our daily bread, both to fuel our bodies and to nourish our
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souls, so that we may do the good works You have prepared for us.
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