Luke 9:13-17 But he said to them, Give you them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes… 1. We learn from this miracle that it is our duty to do what we can to supply the bodily wants of others. 2. We here learn that those who follow Christ may trust to Him for the necessaries of life. 3. We are here reminded of the duty of what is commonly called "saying grace" at meals This was our Lord's practice, and it is a duty often enjoined in Scripture. 4. From the particular direction our Lord here gave as to the fragments, we draw the general rule that nothing should be lost, or wasted. To waste our substance is a sinful abuse of God's gifts. It is one thing to be generous and hospitable; it is quite another to be thoughtless, extravagant, and wasteful. Such wasting is not only offensive to God, but unjust and unkind to our fellow creatures. (J. Foote, M. A.) Parallel Verses KJV: But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people. |
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