What a remarkable day it must have been. Christ Jesus spoke to thousands, delivering his message in the atmosphere of selfless, unspeakable love—with which he embraced all, wherever he went. The message reached thoughts and moved hearts so deeply that multitudes were healed. Before the day was over, one of the extraordinary events in the history of mankind had occurred.
A scant supply of bread and fish was multiplied into enough food to satisfy the hunger of every one there, with abundance left over. The Gospel of Luke relates the story of that exceptional incident in this way: "Then he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed them, and brake, and gave to the disciples to set before the multitude. And they did eat, and were all filled...." Luke 9:16, 17.
Some of those attending that momentous event could have been hearing the Master's inspiring words for the first time, while others may have heard him speak many times before. But each went away filled, and many were filled, not only with food that literally satisfied human need, but with the bread of Truth for which the human heart hungers. Receptive listeners in the throng were given so freely of the healing Truth in terms they could receive and digest that their lives must never again have been the same.
