Give Ye Them to Eat

Passages: Luke 8:26-56; Luke 9:1-9; Luke 9:10-17 & John 6:1-15

On the far shore, a man possessed by many demons meets Jesus among the tombs, and the demons that come out of him go into a herd of pigs instead. Back in Galilee, Jesus heals a woman who has suffered twelve years just by her touching the hem of his garment, and raises the daughter of a synagogue ruler named Jairus who had already died. Jesus then gives his twelve apostles power and authority and sends them out to preach and heal. When they return and report all they had done, Jesus withdraws privately with them — but the crowds follow on foot, and by evening some five thousand men, besides women and children, are gathered with nothing to eat. Both Luke and John record what happens next: five loaves and two fish, blessed, broken, and enough for everyone with baskets left over.

We are in a Luke-John Harmony. Today's episode covers: Luke 8:26-56; Luke 9:1-9; Luke 9:10-17 & John 6:1-15 (The Gerasene Demoniac, Jairus' Daughter, and the Woman Healed; The Twelve Sent Out; The Feeding of the Five Thousand).