Part A: Charpentier Method
1. Read the passage for the first time
Note your reactions: When I was reading the passage of ‘Jesus feeds the Five Thousand’, I felt amazed that Jesus could use two fish and five loaves to feed five thousand people. I was also surprised that there were still twelve baskets of broken pieces of fish and bread leftover, after everyone was satisfied.
- What strikes you or puzzles you? It puzzles me that Jesus was able to feed five thousand people with only two fish and five loaves. It also puzzles me that the crowds sat in groups of hundreds and fifties, and not just in one big group.
- What do you find attractive or comforting I felt comforted when Jesus took compassion on the crowd, fed and taught them all. I liked
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Study the passage - What is happening in the text? Jesus came across a large crowd of people who were trying to see him. He had compassion on them, taught them multiple things and healed the sick among them. All they had was five loaves of bread and two fish. With these, Jesus broke the loaves and divided the fish, which the people ate and became full. There were twelve baskets of broken pieces of bread and fish leftover from the five thousand people who had eaten. - Who is doing or looking for what? Jesus healed, taught and was compassionate to the crowd. He performed a miracle and fed all five thousand people because they needed something to eat. The apostles/crowd were looking for Jesus to hear him teach, ask questions and to be reassured that Jesus will always help them and give them guidance. At the start of the passage, they were looking for Jesus to tell him all that they had done and taught.
- What are their attitudes? The apostles were satisfied and happy after eating, and Jesus had a positive attitude towards them due to the fact that he wanted them all to
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At the start of the passage, Jesus told his apostles to get some rest, but many of them saw him leaving. They ran to get to the place where he was going so they could tell him what they have done and what they have taught. At the end of the passage, Jesus had compassion on them and fed the five thousand people with only five loaves and two fish.
- Can you see any change? The change in this passage is that the apostles were hungry and had not eaten all day, because they were listening to Jesus teach. Then, they ate the bread and fish and were all satisfied and full. - How does it happen? The change occurs by Jesus looking up to heaven, giving thanks to God and then performing the miracle of feeding five thousand people with nothing but five loaves of bread and two fish. - What stages are involved? The apostles ran to where Jesus was going, Jesus has compassion and teaches them, Jesus performs the miracle by breaking the loaves and fish, the crowd are satisfied and full with their food and twelve baskets of broken bread and fish are leftover.
- Who, or what, brings about the change? Jesus is the person who brings the change because he did not let the people go and buy their own food like the disciples wanted them to, instead he fed them himself with only what they had which was five loaves and two fish. 3. Context of the
There was a scroll that needed to be opened but there was none found that could open it. The only one worthy of opening the scroll was a lamb that had been sacrificed for the Lord.
Jesus used parables to his disciples as a way to educate them on how important lessons could get overlooked by many people. At some point, Jesus seemed to be limiting his audience when he suggested that, “To His disciples, the kingdom
Mt 14:18 He said, Bring them hither to me. 19 And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.
disciples then said, “It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables.
As we know, the Lord provided his people with many miracles throughout the Old Testament. These miracles date back to Moses, where God granted his people the ability to perform miracles and also interact with them. By interact, this means things like the parting of the Red Sea, or the tunnel of fire that allowed the Israelites to travel safely through the ni...
changes, one of them being his total faith for his lord and saviour, which then switches to him
The book of Matthew talks about Jesus walking on the water. There are a few ways that people explain the passage. Some people try to explain away the miracle. We are going to discuss both these ways.
The three parables contained in chapter fifteen of the Gospel of Luke are a tightly woven trio anchored on either side by closely related teachings. The preceding chapter gives instruction on humility and hospitality, telling the reader to open the invitation to one’s meal table to all, including the poor, the sick, and the unclean. In the following chapter the reader finds instructions for how to use wealth to benefit those same people. In the middle of these we find chapter fifteen, containing the parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the prodigal and his brother. As a part of the triplet, the parable of the lost sheep challenges the reader to not only invite the poor into one’s community, but to receive them as family with joy and celebration.
... harmed. These verses are a good example of how the disciples performed discipleship because Jesus is again telling them what they are to do as disciples of Christ.
McMurphy organizes a fishing trip for the patients where he takes twelve patients and teaches them the ways of life. Jesus has twelve disciples and several of them are fishermen as he declares he would make them “fishers of men”. During the trip McMurphy tests their strengths and gives them a sense of power. Chief Bromden, the narrator, describes a sense of change within the patients after the trip, as he says they “weren’t the same
It was full of large fish, 153, but even with so many the net was not torn. 12 Jesus said to them, “Come and have breakfast.” None of the disciples dared ask him, “Who are you?” They knew it was the Lord.13 Jesus came, took the bread and gave it to them, and did the same with the fish.
15 Then the LORD said to me, "Go again and play the part of a worthy shepherd. 16 This will illustrate how I will give this nation a shepherd who will not care for the sheep that are threatened by death, nor look after the young, nor heal the injured, nor feed the healthy. Instead, this shepherd will eat the meat of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.... ...
In this passage Jesus goes to a deserted place for rest, in the same time He attracts a great number of people. Jesus then sees the vast crowd and tells his disciples to go to the nearest villages and farms to gather food for the people. The disciples only had two hundred days worth of wage, so Jesus sent them to get as many loaves and fish. They brought back five loaves and two fish. Jesus took the loaves
It quickly becomes evident that the boy’s inexperience with money will lead to his downfall when Jesus tells that he gathers all together and takes “his journey to a far country'; (9). He is out to live the good life as he wastes “his substance with riotous living'; (9). This sinful life he is living would bring shame to his family, especially his father. This f...
Jesus turned ordinary water into magnificent wine to be enjoyed by all while at a wedding celebration in Cana in Galilee. Many believe this wine; his first public miracle, to be the start of his ministry and a symbol of the New Testament. This paper will show this miracle was truly the start of a new era; the era of the son of God, Jesus Christ.