"They ate and were satisfied." (Mark 8: 8).
Jesus fed 4000 people with seven loaves and a few fish. They all ate and were satisfied with plenty leftover.
Only Christ the Bread of life who knows exactly what we need and when we need it can perform such a miracle. Remember the Wedding Feast at Canna? (John 2: 2 - 5). The people drank the best wine until they could drink no more.
Jesus fulfilled admirably the prophecy in Isaiah 55: 1 - 3).
"All you who are thirsty,
come to the water!
You who have no money, come, buy grain and eat;
Come, buy grain without money,
wine and milk without cost!" (Isaiah 55: 1).
The Miracle of the feeding of 4000 people prefigures the Eucharist.
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” (John 6: 51)
The Fathers of the Church sees the Eucharist as Food for the Journey. St Ignatius of Antioch, an early Church Father called the Eucharist the Medicine for Immortality.
Every single day, Jesus continues to feed millions of people with the finest wheat, the Bread of life. (John 6 : 35; Matthew 26: 26; 1 Corinthians 11: 24)
“It is written and forever remains written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes out of the mouth of God." (Matthew 4: 4 AMP)
"He fed them with the finest wheat
and satisfied them with honey from the rock." (Cf. Psalm 81 (80): 17 RM)
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