Talk:Feeding the multitude

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[edit] Simpler explanations?

Am I the only one who think all this number mysticism and talk of tribes of Israel and such is a bit... over the top? There are a few explanations and motives that might seem much less distant, such as:

• The parable telling something about the afterlife, namely that there's no hunger in Heaven
• The idea that "what you have is good enough for Jesus" (the scarce supply of food being plenty to fulfil God's plan)
• The "yeast of the Pharisees" being their teachings, with Jesus merely underlining the point that he's talking metaphorically; when he could feed people with so little, why would he worry about the bread?

If nothing else, these should probably be discussed somewhere in the article. -80.202.212.112

What about the "bread is love" theory? See, share all the food around, and when you collect, you have than you begin with. It's like an extension of the ethic of reciprocity. --Switch 05:12, 7 October 2006 (UTC)