Feeding the Multitudes

One of the boldest attacks on the truth of late years has been the statement that when our Lord fed the thousands on a few loaves and fishes, with baskets of fragments remaining as not needed, it is impossible they could have all eaten, and must have had a meal before. But such infidel statements completely leave out God, and it may be said to those who so speak, “Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God.” As to the miracle of feeding so many on so little, we are told “they were all filled,” and on referring to Psa. 132:15, we see it was only the fulfilment of what had been predicted ages before, as a true sign of Messiah, “I will abundantly bless her provision; I will satisfy her poor with bread.” Could there have been a more beautiful fulfilment of this prophecy than our Lord’s feeding the multitude? And ought not the Jews to have known by it that He was the Messiah?