Pickled Fish
Apparently, they were probably pickled fish. The “two small fish” that the boy had? The word John uses here to tell us about the miraculous feeding of the 5,000 is a word that implies that they were probably small, pickled fish, meant to be eaten as a side dish on small barley cakes.
There’s something about that detail that makes the story vividly real to me.
A small boy with two little pickled fish….
I love Andrew’s question, when he presents the five barley loaves and the two small fish to Jesus:
“But what are they among so many"?”
Chances are you feel you don’t have enough today:
not enough time;
not enough money;
not enough influence;
not enough love;
not enough patience;
etc.
In the face of THAT, how is what I have enough?
The answer: even what we have is enough when we give it to the Lord.
What do you need to put in the Lord’s hands today?