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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
February, 1938
"When Jesus Fed a Hungry Crowd M ark 6:30-44 Memory Verse: “ O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever” (Psa. 118:29). Approach: You might suppose that the Lord Jesus would be discouraged when He found that His old friends and neighbors would not believe that He was the Son of
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3. “ There were many coming and going” (v. 31). The great crowds which were thronging about the Lord at this particular time may be accounted for by two reasons: First, the twelve apostles had just com pleted their preaching tour throughout the land, and tremendous interest had been aroused in the new Teacher. Second, the time was just prior to the Passover, and great multitudes of people were doubtless moving toward Jerusalem for the feast (cf. John 6:4). 4. “ Upon the green grass ” (v. 39). This rather minor detail is one of the proofs that in the Gospels we have genuine history, not stories fabricated by writers far removed from the original events. In John’s Gospel the time of the incident of the feeding of the people is placed at the Passover season (6:4), wThich is precisely the time when we might expect to find “green grass” in the desert regions. It was the springtime, fol lowing the winter rains. 5. “By hundreds, and by fifties (v. 40). Luke says: “ In companies, about fifty each” (9:14, R. V .). There is no contradiction. There were two distinct units of division. Luke notices one, Mark both. Such an ar rangement enabled the disciples to serve them quickly, and also accounts for the fact that the number fed could be ascertained easily. All four writers agree that there were five thousand, but Matthew points out that this was exclusive of the women and chil dren, surely a great multitude. Sir Ernest Shackleton spoke at a meeting on behalf of the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society soon after he came back from his Antarctic expedition. The report in the Sunday School Chronicle says: “At this time last year* Shackleton and his com rades were on the homeward march from their ‘farthest. south’ journey, and at the recent meeting he read the entry made in his diary for the same day last year. It contained the passage, ‘Very hungry. Dreaming of food all day.’ This entry might have been made on many other days, said Sir Ernest. The men had then been hungry for three months, and during that time they had a full meal only on Christmas Day, which lasted for merely half an hour. Not one morsel of food was allowed to escape, and if one man dropped a crumb, when eating, and did not notice it—the latter being a rare occurrence— it was pointed out to him, and he would wet the tip of his finger and pick up the crumb and eat it. ‘I think I am entitled to say,’ said Sir Ernest, ‘that I know what it is to be hungry. When we came back, we said that we would never see a person flattening his nose against a cookshop window without giving him something. W e have great sympathy with all who are hungry, and al ways do our best to help them. That is the reason I want to plead the cause of these waifs and strays. There is no more heart breaking sight than that of a hungry, mis erable, homeless little child.’ ” — The Sunday School Times , Golden Text Illustration M a r k 6:37
God and the prom ised Saviour. But He wasn’t. He knew that He had come “to seek and to save that which was lost” (Lk. 19:10), and He went right on giving all the people a chance to believe if t h e y w o u l d . He could not make them be
lieve, but He could tell them who He was and what He had come to do. He tried in every way to tell them who He was and what power was His. Lesson Story: The Lord Jesus had taken His twelve disciples and sent them out two and two to help tell His story to the people, and now they had come back to tell Him what had happened on their journey. They went into a desert place where they might be alone and might talk together. But the crowd followed them even there. And Jesus felt sorry for them. He had wanted to be alone with His disciples, but the people seemed to Him like “ sheep not hav ing a shepherd,” and because they needed Him, He “ began to teach them many things.” For hours they stood there listening, and then soon it would be dark and they were many miles from home and they had no food. Would Jesus leave them to go home in the dark, hungry and tired? No, not Jesus. He provides for every need. He had them sit down, and He took the only food that was there— a boy’s lunch— and blessed it and gave it to His disciples to pass out, and it increased until it fed five thousand men besides women and children (Matt. 14:21). It was only five little loaves of bread about the size of buns, and two little fishes, but because He took it and used it, it went around. If we give what we have to Jesus, He will make it supply every need.
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