Loavfish

Loaves and fishes

Matthew 14: 14-21, Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand.

Mark 6: 30-44, The people pursued.

Mark 8: 14-21, The Leaven of the Pharisees and Herod

Luke 9: 10-17, Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand.

John 6: 5-14 Organizing five thousand people Make them sit down by fifties in a company.

• The feeding of the people appears in all four gospels but the Greek word for miracle never appears in the original text in reference to the appearance of an abundance of the loaves and fishes.
• In Mark 6:43 There were twelve kophinos ('hand baskets') but in Mark 8:8 there were seven spuris which are baskets at least twice the size a kophinos.

2 Kings 4:38, 44 The great pot, Give unto the people.