“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”
A man came from Baal-shalishah, bringing the man of God bread of the firstfruits, twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. And Elisha said, “Give to the men, that they may eat.” But his servant said, “How can I set this before a hundred men?” So he repeated, “Give them to the men, that they may eat, for thus says the Lord, ‘They shall eat and have some left.’” So he set it before them. And they ate and had some left, according to the word of the Lord.
But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They said, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish—unless we are to go and buy food for all these people.”
And he said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out, they said, “Five, and two fish.”
They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.”
They spoke against God, saying, “Can God spread a table in the wilderness?
Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They said to him, “Twelve.”
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
He makes peace in your borders; he fills you with the finest of the wheat.
But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.”
a land of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey,
And I heard what seemed to be a voice in the midst of the four living creatures, saying, “A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius, and do not harm the oil and wine!”
Now when Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.”
Judah and the land of Israel traded with you; they exchanged for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm.
They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
But Elisha said, “Hear the word of the Lord: thus says the Lord, Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour shall be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, at the gate of Samaria.”
Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds they brought to the place where it was required, each according to his duty.
Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of Bashan and goats, with the very finest of the wheat— and you drank foaming wine made from the blood of the grape.
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