John 6:7

As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.

But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” They asked him, “Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread, and give them something to eat?”

“A certain lender had two debtors. The one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

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 should go and buy food for all these people.”

But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

Philip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father, and that will be enough for us.”

Where could I get meat to give all these people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat, that we may eat.’

At meal time Boaz said to her, “Come here, and eat some bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar.” She sat beside the reapers, and they passed her parched grain. She ate, was satisfied, and left some of it.

When the containers were full, she said to her son, “Bring me another container.” He said to her, “There isn’t another container.” Then the oil stopped flowing.

A man from Baal Shalishah came, and brought the man of God some bread of the first fruits: twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain in his sack. He said, “Give to the people, that they may eat.”

Elisha said, “Hear Yahweh’s word. Yahweh says, ‘Tomorrow about this time a seah of fine flour will be sold for a shekel, and two seahs of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.’ ”

“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.

He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Philip; Bartholomew; Thomas; Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus; Lebbaeus, who was also called Thaddaeus;

When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

He said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go see.” When they knew, they said, “Five, and two fish.”

He has filled the hungry with good things. He has sent the rich away empty.

They ate and were all filled. They gathered up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.

Show me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” They answered, “Caesar’s.”

The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus.

On the next day, he was determined to go out into Galilee, and he found Philip. Jesus said to him, “Follow me.”

The third day, there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there.

Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude was coming to him, said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, that these may eat?”

These, therefore, came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, “Buy what things we need for the feast,” or that he should give something to the poor.

Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”

“I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak to them, saying, ‘At evening you shall eat meat, and in the morning you shall be filled with bread. Then you will know that I am Yahweh your God.’ ”

You shall make its lamps seven, and they shall light its lamps to give light to the space in front of it.

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, to be sufficient for them? Shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to be sufficient for them?”

You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.

a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of olive trees and honey;

This is the way it shall be done: every creditor shall release that which he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not require payment from his neighbor and his brother, because Yahweh’s release has been proclaimed.

Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

His servant said, “What, should I set this before a hundred men?” But he said, “Give the people, that they may eat; for Yahweh says, ‘They will eat, and will have some left over.’ ”

Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, “Behold, if Yahweh made windows in heaven, could this thing be?” He said, “Behold, you will see it with your eyes, but will not eat of it.”

Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Man ate the bread of angels. He sent them food to the full.

When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.

but murmured in their tents, and didn’t listen to Yahweh’s voice.

The righteous one eats to the satisfying of his soul, but the belly of the wicked goes hungry.

‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

A prophet watches over Ephraim with my God. A fowler’s snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

But Jesus said to them, “They don’t need to go away. You give them something to eat.”

They all ate, and were filled. They took up twelve baskets full of that which remained left over from the broken pieces.

The disciples said to him, “Where should we get so many loaves in a deserted place as to satisfy so great a multitude?”

They all ate, and were filled. They took up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left over.

“But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay me what you owe!’

When they received it, they murmured against the master of the household,

Show me the tax money.” They brought to him a denarius.

For this ointment might have been sold for much, and given to the poor.”

His disciples answered him, “From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?”

“When the seven loaves fed the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you take up?” They told him, “Seven.”

For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, and given to the poor.” So they grumbled against her.

After these things he went out, and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and said to him, “Follow me!”

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

These things were done in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

he left Judea and departed into Galilee.

“There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are these among so many?”

Therefore Jesus answered them, “Don’t murmur among yourselves.

“Why wasn’t this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, and given to the poor?”

Don’t grumble, as some of them also grumbled, and perished by the destroyer.

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

We love him, because he first loved us.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

A full soul loathes a honeycomb; but to a hungry soul, every bitter thing is sweet.