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?

Today’s Scripture

John 6:1-15