It’s interesting, isn’t it, that we’re not given the hard data until the very end of this story. Up until the last verse we only know that it’s a crowd for whom Jesus and the disciples have become caterers. “Crowd” could be just about any number above, say, a couple dozen, depending on the circumstances.

But now we know that it’s a crowd for real—5,000 men and whatever huge amount of women and children were there too. Impressive. And though we don’t know how large the baskets were, there is still this: there was food left over!

But don’t be overly impressed with that 5,000 number. The point here is that there was enough and more than enough.

There still is.
 

by Nick Foster from d365.org