Tabgha Multiplication

”The people saw them going, and many recognized them and ran there together on foot from all the cities, and got there ahead of them. When Jesus went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and He felt compassion for them because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and He began to teach them many things. When it was already quite late, His disciples came to Him and said, “This place is desolate and it is already quite late; send them away so that they may go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” But He answered them, “You give them something to eat!” And they *said to Him, “Shall we go and spend two hundred denarii on bread and give them something to eat?” And He *said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they *said, “Five, and two fish.” And He commanded them all to sit down by groups on the green grass. They sat down in groups of hundreds and of fifties. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up toward heaven, He blessed the food and broke the loaves and He kept giving them to the disciples to set before them; and He divided up the two fish among them all. and they picked up twelve full baskets of the broken pieces, and also of the fish. There were five thousand men who ate the loaves.“. ‭‭Mark‬ ‭6‬:‭33‬-‭44‬ ‭‬‬

Tabgha is generally considered the place where Jesus multiplied the loaves of bread and fish (Mark 6:30-34 and Luke 9:10-17). One of the pastors with us on the trip to Israel shared,or what I took out of what was shared:

“God will only multiply what we have in our hands and are willing to give to Him. He will only ask for all that we have to see if we will trust Him when we have nothing else left to give. If we keep our eyes on circumstances, the need in front of us, the thing in our hands, we can never see what God wants to do and the multiplication He can produce.”

Today as I was doing my quiet time, I was reading about the manna that God gave to the Israelites. I was reminder of John 6:35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” And Matthew 4:19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.”

Maybe it is no coincidence that Jesus multiplied bread and fish. As we partake of the Bread of Life, we are more inclined to be fishers of men. As we allow the Bread to multiply in our lives, He will multiply the fish.