In this week's edition of "There's more in the Sunday Gospel than meets the eye,"
Jill Bevilacqua and Seàn-Patrick Lovett bring us readings and reflections for the
Seventeenth Sunday of the Year. Listen:
GospelJn 6:1-15
Jesus went across the Sea of
Galilee. A large crowd followed him, because they saw the signs he was performing
on the sick. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. The
Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a
large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, "Where can we buy enough food
for them to eat?" He said this to test him, because he himself knew what he
was going to do. Philip answered him, "Two hundred days?' wages worth of food
would not be enough for each of them to have a little.'" One of his disciples, Andrew,
the brother of Simon Peter, said to him, "There is a boy here who has five barley
loaves and two fish; but what good are these for so many?" Jesus said, "Have
the people recline." Now there was a great deal of grass in that place. So the
men reclined, about five thousand in number. Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and
distributed them to those who were reclining, and also as much of the fish as they
wanted. When they had had their fill, he said to his disciples, "Gather the
fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted." So they collected them, and
filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that
had been more than they could eat. When the people saw the sign he had done, they
said, "This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world." Since
Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he
withdrew again to the mountain alone.