Jesus Feeds Five Thousand

This story is taken from John 6:1-13

Jesus crossed over to the far side of Sea of Galilee.   A large crowd of people kept following Him wherever He went, because they saw His miracles as He healed the sick.  Then Jesus went up the mountain and sat down on the mountain side with His disciples sitting down around Him.  At this time it was getting close for the yearly Passover celebration.  When Jesus looked up He saw a great crowd of people coming up the mountain looking for Him.  Turning to Philip, Jesus asked, “Philip, where can we buy bread to feed all these people?”  You see, Jesus was testing Philip, for Jesus already knew what He was going to do.

Philip told Jesus that it would take a small fortune to feed all of these people!  Then Andrew, Peter brother, said to Jesus, "there is a young boy here with five loaves of barley bread, and two small fish.  But, what good is that, for how far would that go with such a large crowd of people?" 

You see Andrew was thinking like we would, that 2 small fish and 5 loaves of bread couldn't possible feed 5,000 people.  Andrew wasn't thinking, he had seen Jesus do miracles and Jesus was fixing to do another miracle.  What did Jesus do?  Let's keep reading and find out. 

Jesus told his disciples to have all the people to sit down on the ground.  There was plenty of grass there for the people to sit down on.  There were five thousand men there, and that wasn't even counting the women and children.  Then Jesus took the five loaves of bread and He gave thanks to God, and the bread was passed out to the people.  Jesus did the same thing with the two fish.  And everyone ate until they were full.

After everyone had all they wanted to eat Jesus told his disciples, to pickup the leftovers, so that nothing would be wasted.”  Remember there were only five loaves of barley bread to start with, but after the disciples picked up the leftovers there were twelve baskets that were filled with pieces of bread that the people didn't eat!
 
In our story, Jesus did a miracle with the bread and the fish.  Remember Jesus took five loaves of bread and two fish and he feed over five thousand people  and there were still twelve baskets full of food left over.  What a miracle!

 

Lesson Questions Fill in the Blanks:

1.       Jesus crossed over the Sea of ____________________

2.      It was getting close for the yearly ______________________ celebration.

3.      Jesus asked Philip, “Where can we buy___________________ to feed all these people

4.      Philip said, “It would take a small ______________  to feed them.

5.      Andrew said, “A young boy has _________ loaves and ________ fish

6.      There were _______________________________ men not counting the women and children

7.      The disciples picked up _________________ baskets of left over bread.

Draw fins on the side of the fish and color the fish

Find a Word

Fish	Twelve	Leftovers	Loaves
Five	Wasted	disciples	Andrew
Sick	Bread	Passover	Healed
Jesus Five Thousand	Philip Sea of Galilee	Celebration Mountain	Baskets Miracles

S	I	C	K	L	J	H	S	I	F	T	B
E	L	E	F	T	O	V	E	R	S	W	A
A	R	L	I	P	H	I	L	I	P	E	S
O	J	E	S	U	S	S	P	S	R	L	K
F	O	B	R	E	A	D	I	C	K	V	E
G	O	R	G	E	H	I	C	H	E	E	T
A	W	A	S	T	E	D	S	L	E	M	S
L	O	T	B	E	A	S	I	O	P	O	H
I	R	I	E	C	L	E	D	A	W	U	E
L	D	O	E	A	E	E	O	V	E	N	R
E	K	N	N	N	D	N	N	E	R	T	E
E	M	I	R	A	C	L	E	S	D	A	N
R	E	V	O	S	S	A	P		N	I	A
F	I	V	E	T	H	O	U	S	A	N	D

See how many other words you can find.

 

Answer sheet

lesson answers

1. Jesus crossed over the Sea of Galilee
2. It was getting close for the yearly Passover celebration
3. Jesus asked Philip, “Where can we buy bread to feed all these people”
4. Philip said, “It would take a small fortune to feed them.”
5. Andrew said, “A young boy had 5 loaves and 2 fish”
6. There were 5,000 men not counting the women and children
7. The disciples picked up 12 baskets of left over bread.