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The feeding of knowledge to the 4000 men

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"He has fashioned out every fruit to perfection - and he makes the deaf to hear and comprehend, and the mute to speak again."

 

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In these days when there was again a great crowd having nothing to eat, he summoned his students, and he said to them:

 

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 "I have pity on the crowd, because they have put up with me now for 3 days and have nothing to eat.

 

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If I release them fasting to their houses, they will pass out along the Way, and some of them have arrived from a far distance."

 

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His students replied: "How is he able to satisfy with the breads here in - this desert?"

 

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He questioned them: "How many Breads do you have?" They said: "7."

 

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He then ordered the crowd to recline on the Way; and he took the 7 Breads, and after  praising well he broke them, and entrusted them to his students; and they set them out for the crowd. 

 

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And they had some tiny fish; and after speaking well, he said that these should be set too!.

 

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And they ate and were fatterned; and they took up the broken pieces that over-flowed, 7 caskets full.

 

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There happened to be 4000. And he released them.