Letters from Adina - #15

Letter XV. The The Miracle of Loaves and Fishes

The Christ feeds the Multitude

My Dear Father,

The question you ask in your last letter, ‘‘What hath become of John of Jordan, since the fame of Jesus hath so far eclipsed his own?’’ I can answer, but with sadness.

  ‘‘When Jesus heard of the death of John, He was very sorrowful,” writes his Disciple John, to Mary, ‘‘and went away into a desert place apart, to mourn over the fate of His bold and holy forerunner.’’

In the meanwhile, the disciples of John the Baptist, believing that the murder of their prophet was but the first blow of a general slaughter, fled, some hiding in the desert, while others sought Jesus that He might protect and counsel them.

At length He found Himself surrounded by a great multitude, chiefly of John’s disciples, who had fled from the cities, besides many who came to hear Him preach, and be healed of Him.

The place was a desert, and far from any town. Forgetful of all else, save the words of Jesus, they were without food.

“We who were His disciples,” says John, writing to Rabbi Amos, seeing this, suggested that Jesus should send the multitude away to the villages to buy themselves victuals.

But Jesus answered us and said - “They need not go away—give ye them to eat.”

“And, Simon said, “Master, where can we get bread for so many? There is verily here an army to be fed, and we have among us but five loaves and two small fishes.”

Upon hearing this, Jesus said - “It is enough: bring them hither unto me.”

“We collected the bread and fishes, and I myself, laid them on a rock before Jesus. He then said to us, “Command the multitude to sit down on the grass.” And when they were all seated He took the five loaves, and laying his hands upon them and upon the two fishes,

He looked up to heaven and gave thanks; and then breaking them into fragments, He gave them to us, His disciples, and bade us distribute to the people.

As often as we returned for more, we found the loaves and the fishes undiminished; and I saw with wonder how when this Prophet of God broke off a piece of one of the fishes, or of a loaf, the same part would immediately seen thereon as if nothing had been separated; and in this manner he continued to break and distribute to us for nearly an hour, until all had eaten as much as they would, and were filled; and when none demanded more, and He ceased to break the bread and fishes, He commanded us to gather up the fragments which remained, and they were twelve basketsful, over and above what was needed.

The number that were thus miraculously fed was above five thousand men, besides nearly an equal number of women and children.

And this mighty Prophet, who could thus feed an army, voluntarily suffered forty days and nights the pangs of hunger in the desert! He seems a man in suffering, but in creating power, a God.”

This wonderful miracle, my dear father, is one that has too many witnesses to be denied.

He who could miraculously feed five thousand could feed all men. Must not He, then, who could feed all mankind, be divine?  Surely, this must be the Son of God!

If I should relate to you all the miracles which have been done by Him, I should fill many letters.  Not a day passes but we hear of some still more wondrous manifestation of His power.

Every morning, when men meet in the market places, or in the avenues of the Temple, the first question is, ‘‘What new wonder has He performed? Have you heard of another miracle of this mighty Prophet?’’

Indeed, so great is the desire here felt to see Jesus and to witness His miracles, that where one went to hear John preach in the wilderness of Jordan, ten go to see Christ in Galilee.

The priests alone are offended, and speak evil of Him through envy. They complain that he draws off the people from the sacrifices; that He is preaching another law than that of Moses; that He eats with sinners; that He enters the houses of Samaritans; and that He loveth Galilee rather than Jerusalem, which they declare, to be evidence that He is not the Christ who was ‘‘to come to the Temple and send forth His law from Jerusalem.”’

They have even gone so far as to say that He performs His miracles by magic or by the aid of Beelzebub, the Prince of the devils.

 “If we suffer Him to take men’s minds as He doth,” said Caiaphas to Rabbi Amos yesterday, when he heard that Jesus had walked on the sea to join His disciples in their ship, and had stilled a tempest with a word, ‘‘the worship in the Temple will be at an end, and the sacrifice will cease. He draweth all men unto him.”

I did not tell you that besides the six disciples whom I have named, he has chosen six others, and the twelve He keeps with Him as his more favored followers, whom He daily instructs in the doctrines He came down from heaven to teach.

Of the thousands who never weary going from place to place in his train, He has also selected seventy men, whom He dispatched by twos into every city and village of Judea, commanding them to proclaim that the kingdom of God as at hand, and that the time hath come when men everywhere should repent and turn to God.

You may charge me with being a dreamer, my dear father; but if Jesus be the Christ, earth has no language that can express the splendor of His reign.

  It is now commonly reported that He will be here at the Passover. I shall then behold Him, and like the wise men, I shall worship Him with mingled reverence and love.

I will again write you, dear father, after I see and hear Him.

Till then adieu,

Your loving Adina

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