Post by alon on Jun 24, 2022 6:37:23 GMT -8
John 6:1-14
This is recorded in all the Gospels, but John gives us the best clues as to what is going on. Names of places can tell us a lot, as can the land itself. But we have to pay attention to the subtle hints:
John 6:1-14 (ESV) 1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.
Yeshua has gone from the Decapolis “To the other side of the Sea of Galilee.” ‘Going to the other side’ is actually a Hebraism for going from one political region to another- crossing a border, if you will. So He didn’t just go from one side of the lake to the other, he crossed a political border. He left the Decapolis, a region with many Hellenized Jews and Gentiles and areas of conservative Jews. He then goes into the Galil (Galilee) which has a conservative Jewish worldview except for the Hellenism of the cities built up by Herod.
2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Remember He “came for the lost sheep of Israel,” and it sounds like many of these lost sheep followed to hear this man most likely to be ha’moshiach.
3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
Here Yochanon mentions Pesach. This tells us it was spring, and now I’m going to speculate a bit. I am “Hebrew Primacy” when it comes to the so called “New Testament.” I believe it was entirely written in Hebrew, then translated into Greek, then into English; all with who knows how many intervening translations at any point. So this could be a general reference that the Greek scribe or other translators got wrong. It just means at the same season as the Passover, not just before as it sounds to us. If Pesach was “at hand” (about to begin) Yeshua and every observant male and many others would all be “going up” to Yerushalayim. Apparently they were not.
So it’s springtime in the Galil. The barley harvest is done, but the wheat harvest has not yet been completed, and possibly not started in the wetter northern regions. However everyone is thinking of the Exodus, as it is the season of Pesach.
5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”
Barley being the first grain harvested the boy had barley loaves, and he had fish because he lived by Lake Tiberius (the Sea of Galilee).
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place.
“There was much grass in the place” because it’s right after the rainy season.
So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.
11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” 13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.
We are actually being given another hint that this is the springtime, and told what the connection to Pesach is. They filled twelve baskets of barley loaves. This is important, because of what happened soon after the first Pesach. YHVH-Shammah, God Who is There; who is available when needed (Eze 48:35) took His people into the wilderness. There were twelve tribes, and He miraculously provided manna for them. Yochanon has given us a verbal picture of Yeshua recreating what Elohei Yisroel did for His people so long ago at this time. Yeshua miraculously provides for His people- those who come to Him.
14 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
They recognize what is happening! He, the Anointed One is recreating the history of the Jewish people. Now go forward to John 6:35 & 48 where Yeshua says straight up He is “the Bread of Life.” This is not lost on the people. Everyone is watching this man Yeshua. They hear of what He is doing, and they know what He says. And they pick up on the subtle references even later when these things are written down and circulated. But we must think as they did or we’ll miss it.
This is my interpretation of a course I took from Dr. C Parker.
Dan (Just so you know I’m not a genius) C
This is recorded in all the Gospels, but John gives us the best clues as to what is going on. Names of places can tell us a lot, as can the land itself. But we have to pay attention to the subtle hints:
John 6:1-14 (ESV) 1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias.
Yeshua has gone from the Decapolis “To the other side of the Sea of Galilee.” ‘Going to the other side’ is actually a Hebraism for going from one political region to another- crossing a border, if you will. So He didn’t just go from one side of the lake to the other, he crossed a political border. He left the Decapolis, a region with many Hellenized Jews and Gentiles and areas of conservative Jews. He then goes into the Galil (Galilee) which has a conservative Jewish worldview except for the Hellenism of the cities built up by Herod.
2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Remember He “came for the lost sheep of Israel,” and it sounds like many of these lost sheep followed to hear this man most likely to be ha’moshiach.
3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand.
Here Yochanon mentions Pesach. This tells us it was spring, and now I’m going to speculate a bit. I am “Hebrew Primacy” when it comes to the so called “New Testament.” I believe it was entirely written in Hebrew, then translated into Greek, then into English; all with who knows how many intervening translations at any point. So this could be a general reference that the Greek scribe or other translators got wrong. It just means at the same season as the Passover, not just before as it sounds to us. If Pesach was “at hand” (about to begin) Yeshua and every observant male and many others would all be “going up” to Yerushalayim. Apparently they were not.
So it’s springtime in the Galil. The barley harvest is done, but the wheat harvest has not yet been completed, and possibly not started in the wetter northern regions. However everyone is thinking of the Exodus, as it is the season of Pesach.
5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”
Barley being the first grain harvested the boy had barley loaves, and he had fish because he lived by Lake Tiberius (the Sea of Galilee).
10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place.
“There was much grass in the place” because it’s right after the rainy season.
So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.
11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” 13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten.
We are actually being given another hint that this is the springtime, and told what the connection to Pesach is. They filled twelve baskets of barley loaves. This is important, because of what happened soon after the first Pesach. YHVH-Shammah, God Who is There; who is available when needed (Eze 48:35) took His people into the wilderness. There were twelve tribes, and He miraculously provided manna for them. Yochanon has given us a verbal picture of Yeshua recreating what Elohei Yisroel did for His people so long ago at this time. Yeshua miraculously provides for His people- those who come to Him.
14 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
They recognize what is happening! He, the Anointed One is recreating the history of the Jewish people. Now go forward to John 6:35 & 48 where Yeshua says straight up He is “the Bread of Life.” This is not lost on the people. Everyone is watching this man Yeshua. They hear of what He is doing, and they know what He says. And they pick up on the subtle references even later when these things are written down and circulated. But we must think as they did or we’ll miss it.
This is my interpretation of a course I took from Dr. C Parker.
Dan (Just so you know I’m not a genius) C