"How many loaves do you have?" he asked. "Go and see." When they found out, they said, "Five—and two fish." ... They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand. Mark 6: 38, 42-44
This Bible story is particularly perplexing to starving people throughout the world. Alas, God must have his reasons for their perpetual hunger. (Note: with so much wasted food, Bible scholars suspect the crowd around Jesus that day to be obese American tourists.)
It would have been odd for people of this time to not have brought food to this event. Some theorize that once Jesus and his disciples began to share their own food, that the crowd began to share among themselves also. The first "rock soup" moment.
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