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Is the Feeding of the 5,000 Really About the Boy? (John 6:1-15) | Daily Devotional & Bible Study
Today the color method begins with one question: who is this passage about? We mark every name, title, and pronoun in John 6:1-15 in green, and the picture is clear. The boy with the loaves and fish gets one mark, while Jesus is in nearly every verse, and that shows us who the story is really about.
"There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these for so many people?" (John 6:9)
Questions this episode answers
Is the story of the five loaves and two fish about the boy?
The boy matters, but he appears only once, has no name, and never speaks. Jesus is in almost…
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