How John Summarized a Miracle of Jesus
I get a
number of daily devotionals by email, and last week one of them pointed out
something fascinating from the Scriptures. Pastor Joseph Prince from Singapore
(see note on Joseph Prince at end of this article) began by mentioning the description of the
feeding of the 5000 by Jesus in the Gospel of John, chapter 6, verses 5 through
13. (After that account, John’s gospel tells us about Jesus walking on water
and coming to his disciples who were out on the Sea of Galilee in a boat during
a storm.)
After that exciting account, in John 6:23, ten verses after John finished telling us about the feeding of the five thousand, he mentions that miracle again, but in an odd way. John writes: “Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.”So the way John summarizes that event is not the way we probably would. He did not directly mention that 5000 people were fed, he did not mention that a little boy had five loaves and …
After that exciting account, in John 6:23, ten verses after John finished telling us about the feeding of the five thousand, he mentions that miracle again, but in an odd way. John writes: “Then some boats from Tiberias landed near the place where the people had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.”So the way John summarizes that event is not the way we probably would. He did not directly mention that 5000 people were fed, he did not mention that a little boy had five loaves and …