In which John and David talk about the feeding of the 5000. What is this miracle about? Is it about food? Or the Messiah? Or is it about hunger - physical and spiritual? And how does the context of what happened around this story help us understand it?

• Click Here to read the text from Matthew 14:13-21.
• Click Here to learn about Skye Jethani's What if Jesus was Serious?
• Click Here to read Walter Brueggemann discuss the 'Myth of Scarcity'.

Episode Outline

• 2:40 - Matthew 14
• 10:56 - The Greek Word for Compassion
• 22:21 - Bread in the Desert
• 32:09 - The "Death" of John the Baptist
• 41:48 - Contrasts and Parallels
• 53:23 - Two Feasts
• 59:49 - The Myth of Scarcity

The next episode of Two Texts will be on Thursday July 8.

Episode 20 of the Two Texts Podcast | Meaning of Miracles Series 3
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