Luke 9:10-17

content/bible_journal/luke_9:10-17.md

@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
++++
+title = "Luke 9:10–17"
+date = "2022-11-29"
++++
+
+### [Read the passage.](https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Lk9.10-17)
+
+After their preaching tour, the disciples return to Jesus to tell Him all they
+had done. So Jesus has them go on a retreat to relax and discuss their reports.
+Maybe that was the plan, but it was interrupted by a crowd of people figuring
+out where they went and following them. Instead of getting mad and sending them
+away, though, Jesus welcomes them and begins teaching and healing as He had
+done with everyone.
+
+After a while, the disciples realize that everyone is starting to get hungry,
+but there isn't enough food to go around. They tell Jesus that it's time for
+everyone to go find food and lodging in the villages and towns that are around,
+but He outrageously tells them to provide food to the crowd. The crowd had
+about 5,000 men, plus women and children, so the five loaves and two fish they
+did have wouldn't go very far. (By the way, what did the disciples think they
+were going to eat if the crowds hadn't showed up? I doubt that was enough for
+13 men, and we know from other accounts that this food came from a boy in the
+crowd to begin with.)
+
+Jesus prays a blessing over the food and has the disciples distribute it
+anyway. And the food just keeps going until everyone in the crowd has more than
+enough. The leftover pieces that were picked up were many times more than what
+they had started with. I expect it was even harder for Jesus to get away by
+Himself after this. Most of the people in the crowd were surely poor, and
+living "paycheck to paycheck" or worse. Getting more food than you could eat
+would be a special day, and this Jesus guy was just giving it out. Lots of
+people would listen to anything if it meant they'd get to eat afterwards.
+
+* * *
+
+Give us this day our daily bread, both to fuel our bodies and to nourish our
+souls, so that we may do the good works You have prepared for us.