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NASB | John 6:9 "There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?" |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 6:9 "There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these for so many people?" |
Bible Question: Is there any possibility that this was not the boy's lunch? Could it be that he was a young entrepreneur planning on selling his fish and bread to the crowd from the very beginning? What if Jesus took what he had intended for financial gain and taught him about a different kind of gain? Maybe God asks some business people today to forgo profit for Kingdom profit. |
Bible Answer: Dave Wegley Yes there is a possibility that it wasn't the young boys lunch and it could have been what he had brought to sell because the Bible simply does not say. However before we develop teaching to the effect that says Jesus was teaching here for companies to forgo profit we would need more information and it just isn't given. Therefore instead of trying to build some new moral code or business practice we should take this passage for what it does say. Jesus was moved with compassion, He did things in an orderly fashion, With no sight of hand, with not spectacular wave of the hand, or no utterance if a incantation Jesus multiplied the available food and feed the 5 thousand. And there was left overs everyone walked away satisfied. EdB |