Comparing Feedings of the 5000 and 4000

5000

• Jewish


• 5 could represent Torah/Law - Jewish


• 1000 could represent everyone - multiplication…


• Jewish boy had the bread - Jesus


• Crowd told to go sit on green grass - seed (Jesus) had already come to the Jews


• 12 baskets of leftovers gathered after people satisfied - represents the 12 tribes of Israel

4000

• Gentile


• In between the two stories - the story of the Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith
  
  
  
  • Let the children be fed FIRST
  
  
  • Not right to take the children’s BREAD and throw it to the dogs
  
  
  • Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs…
  
  
  
  


• 4 could represent the 4 cardinal directions - NESW - to represent ALL people of the earth


• 1000 could represent everyone - multiplication…


• Disciples had the bread - they were Jewish, Gentiles didn’t have access to him yet…


• Crowd told to go sit on the ground - the seed (Jesus/Gospel) hadn’t been tossed out, taken root, and grown yet…
  
  
  
  • Ok for dogs to sit on the ground…
  
  
  
  

• 7 baskets of leftovers gathered after people satisfied - could represent the 7 days of creation - the entire world - the Messiah is for everyone - the whole world…

Genealogy of Jesus in Matthew…

Abraham

Isaac

Jacob (twin, but Esau not mentioned, line doesn’t go thru him)

Judah and his brothers (mentioned, but not by name, line doesn’t go thru them)

Perez and Zerah (Zee-rah)

• Twins - both mentioned, by name


• Line goes thru Perez


• Why are both names mentioned?


• I think it has to do with the meanings of their names…

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