Brake the loaves; and he gave to the disciples (κα απο των ιχθυων). Apparently the fishes were in excess of the twelve baskets ful…

Theophylact of Ohrid: The Lord, first placing before them what is most profitable—that is, the food of the word of God—afte…

Jesus did what any pious Jew would have done before eating—he prayed. The usual form of the prayer was a thanksgiving or eucharist: “Blessed art th…

And when he had taken the five loaves and two fishes
Out of the hands of those that brought them into his own:

Ministers should do or teach only what they are willing to have told to their Lord. Christ notices the fears of some and the labors of others among…