The Daily Audio Bible

Jesus Again Creates Bread And Fish For a Group of 4000 Men

²⁹ And having passed on from there, Jesus went beside the Sea of Galilee. And having gone up on the mountain, He was sitting there. ³⁰ And large crowds came to Him, having with them lame ones, blind ones, crippled ones, mute ones, and many others. And they threw^[a] them at His feet. And He cured them, ³¹ so that the crowd marveled— seeing mute ones speaking, crippled ones healthy, and lame ones walking, and blind ones seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel. ³² And Jesus, having summoned His disciples, said, “I feel-deep-feelings [of compassion] toward the crowd, because it is already three days they are remaining-with Me and they do not have anything they may eat. And I do not want to send them away hungry, so that they may not perhaps become-exhausted^[b] on the way”. ³³ And the disciples say to Him, “From where are there so many loaves for us in a desolate place so as to fill-to-satisfaction so large a crowd?” ³⁴ And Jesus says to them, “How many loaves do you have?” And the ones said, “Seven, and a few small-fish”. ³⁵ And having ordered the crowd to fall-back on the ground [to eat], ³⁶ He took the seven loaves and the fish. And having given-thanks, He broke them and was giving them to the disciples, and the disciples to the crowds. ³⁷ And they all ate and were filled-to-satisfaction. And they picked up the amount of the fragments being left-over— seven full large-baskets. ³⁸ And the ones eating were four-thousand men, apart from women and children.

The Pharisees Ask For a Sign From Heaven. No Sign Will Be Given Except Jonah’s

³⁹ And having sent away the crowds, He got into the boat and went to the districts of Magadan. 16 ¹ And having come to Him, the Pharisees and Sadducees— testing Him— asked Him to show them a sign out-of heaven. ² But the One, having responded, said to them, “Having become evening, you say, ‘Fair weather!— for the heaven is red’; ³ and early-in-the-morning, ‘Stormy-weather today!— for the lowering^[c] heaven is red’. You^[d] know-how to discern the appearance of the heaven but cannot discern the signs of the times! ⁴ An evil and adulterous^[e] generation is seeking-for a sign. And a sign will not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah”.

Jesus Warns His Disciples To Beware of The Leaven of The Pharisees: Their Teachings

And having left them behind, He went away. ⁵ And the disciples, having come to the other side, forgot to take bread. ⁶ And Jesus said to them, “Watch-out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees”. ⁷ And the ones were discussing among themselves, saying that^[f] “We did not take bread”. ⁸ But having known it, Jesus said, “Why are you discussing among yourselves, ones of-little-faith, that you do not have bread? ⁹ Do you not yet perceive? Do you not-even^[g] remember the five loaves of the five-thousand, and how many baskets you received? ¹⁰ Not even the seven loaves of the four-thousand, and how many large-baskets you received? ¹¹ How is it you do not perceive that I did not speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees”. ¹² Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.