Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, near Tiberias, and large crowds followed him because of the miraculous signs they saw when He healed the sick. So He went up into the hills and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. Then lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw the crowds that were coming to him and said to Philip, «Where shall we buy bread so that these people may eat?». He said this to test Philip, for He himself knew what He was going to do. Philip answered him, «Two hundred silver coins would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a piece». Then one of Jesus' disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said, «There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?».
Jesus said, «Make the people sit down». There was plenty of grass there so the people, about five thousand men, sat down to rest. Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks and distributed them to those who were seated. He did the same with the fish and gave them as much as they wanted. And when they had eaten enough, he told his disciples, «Gather up the pieces left over, that nothing may be lost». So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with bread, that is with pieces of the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.
When the people saw this sign that Jesus had just given, they said, «This is really the Prophet, he who is to come into the world». Jesus realized that they would come and take him by force to make him king; so He fled to the hills by himself.
Source: http://evangeli.net/gospel/
Analysis
Today's passage is interesting, why is it interesting? It is interesting as for how long this passage is, it's only a record of a the miracle of Jesus feeding over five thousand people with five loaves of bread and two pieces of fish. As such, it is to me quite insignificant in a teaching or ideological standpoint. Though from the material standpoint, this passage is very significant, as this miracle is one of the most over the top miracles Jesus performed. Healing may be possible by transferring energy and such, but multiplying food? And there's the part in the end where Jesus ran away because He realized the crowds will take Him by force and make Him king.
There is nothing that is impossible in the world of science, as in the end it boils down to energy. You just have to be able to manipulate the quantum fluctuations and energy levels and you can do anything. While transferring energy is very much possible, and with enough faith, you can do it as Jesus did multiple times. However, what about multiplying bread from five loaves to more than enough to feed five thousand people or more and still having twelve large baskets of it? Oh and the fish was also multiplied, but it wasn't spared because if you leave fish too long, it'll rot. Wouldn't this require more energy to be generated and converted to food? Yes it does, however if the energy is taken from the environment, wouldn't it cause some weird side effects? Well yes, which is why the energy actually came from somewhere else. And where is that? Well it's Jesus Himself, this makes sense as Jesus spiritually is still quite godly in nature, as such He has much more energy, probably infinite, and thus He can use His own energy to convert into bread and fishes.
Why did Jesus fled when He realized that He was about to be taken by force and made king? Well you see, because Jesus does not want to be idolized, He does not want us to constantly bow to Him and worship Him, because that's not the will of God. The will of God is for us to seek the truth and fulfill it as according to what we are, our potentials and talents. Jesus in this case was avoiding a cult of personality, which unfortunately somewhat persists today. Well that and if Jesus was taken away at that time, He won't be able to fulfill His mission, that is to save humanity. As such, this tells one thing, we should never fall down to the cult of personality of Jesus, what we should be doing is understanding Him and aid Him in His mission, not bow to Him or praise Him, that won't help. That is all I have to say, have a nice day and see you tomorrow.
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