IT'S HARD TO SAY what the weather was lilke that day, but for sure it was a day of amazing events. A crowd had gathered around Jesus to hear what he had to say. Among them was a young boy who had a few loaves and two small fish. It's hard to say if that was a good catch for that time and place. But it's not hard to imagine what it must have been like to see the bread and fish multiplied in a way that would have fed at least 5,000 people.
Now there was a day's catch.
And the reward for sharing his fish? The young man is forever immortalized in John's Gospel in these words: "One of his disciples ... saith unto him, There is a lad here, which hath five barley loaves, and two small fishes: but what are they among so many?"1 Good question. And Jesus, who could preach the gospel with the most wily Pharisee, showed the lad—and everyone else—that he could also take those modest means and feed his 5,000 listeners.
