Tune: Malvern
(one tune to:\'Jesus, where\'er thy people meet\')
Mark 6 v.32-44 parts
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Great multitude did Jesus meet
How would they be fed? How this feat?
Over five thousand gathered there*
How would they in sustenance share?
Disciples counted loaves and fish
That were there, but was this mere wish?
Five loaves and two fishes to feed
So many in hor of need?
They suggested, Shall we go, buy
Pay over six months wages, try#
To buy enough food for them all?
Yet even this an order tall
Jesus did command them to stay
And sit down on the grass that day
Though evening was passing, still He
Would show them He Provider be
He took the loaves and fish, prayed there
Blessed and broke them for all to share
Disciples distributed, so
Food multiplied, an ample flow
For they did all eat, satisfied
Enough for all He did provide
And even more, for gathered all
Were twelve baskets extra and full
Gathered up, spare, and none did waste
When all had eaten, had their taste
Of food, and seen this miracle
They did partake there, one and all
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* Some Gospels say \'Five thousand men, plus women and children.\'
So it was OVER five thousand people.
# They suggested spending 200 denarii. 1 denarius was one day\'s wage