2 Kings 4:42-43
Elisha Miraculously Feeds a Hundred People
4:42 Now a man from Baal Shalisha brought some food for the prophet – twenty loaves of bread made from the firstfruits of the barley harvest, as well as fresh ears of grain. Elisha said, “Set it before the people so they may eat.”
4:43 But his attendant said, “How can I feed a hundred men with this?” He replied, “Set it before the people so they may eat, for this is what the Lord says, ‘They will eat and have some left over.’”
Matthew 14:16-17
14:16 But he
replied, “They don’t need to go. You
give them something to eat.”
14:17 They
said to him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.”
Mark 6:37-38
6:37 But he answered them,
“You
give them something to eat.” And they said, “Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins
and give it to them to eat?”
6:38 He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” When they found out, they said, “Five – and two fish.”
John 6:5-9
6:5 Then Jesus, when he looked up
and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?”
6:6 (Now Jesus
said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.)
6:7 Philip replied,
“Two hundred silver coins worth
of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.”
6:8 One of Jesus’ disciples,
Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him,
6:9 “Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good
are these for so many people?”