teaching in the wild mountain country, and the people
would not leave Him to go away to their homes. After three days Jesus
said to His disciples, "I have compassion on the multitude because they
continue with me now three days and have nothing to eat, and I will not
send them away fasting lest they faint by the way."

The disciples did not remember the Lord's power to create bread, and
wondered where they should find it in the wilderness to feed such a
great multitude.

But when Jesus knew that they had seven loves of barley bread and a few
little fishes He told the people to sit down on the ground, and after
giving thanks over the loaves and the fishes, He divided them and gave
to His disciples, and the disciples gave to the people. There were
four thousand men beside women and children who took the bread that
came from the Lord's hands. After all had eaten and were filled they
took up seven baskets of the food that was left.

Jesus, though He could create food for the people, taught them to use
it wisely and waste nothing.

When the people had been sent to their homes, Jesus, with His
disciples, took a fishing boat and crossed the Lake only to find the
Pharisees there ready to question Him, and to tempt Him to show them
some great sign from heaven.

He told them that they could read the signs of the coming weather in
the sky, but they could not see the signs of the times.

Only a wicked people look for a sign, He said, and no sign should be
given except the sign that Jonah gave to the Ninevites--a call to
repentance.

Then He left them, for He saw the hardness of their hearts.

Again they took their journey in the little ship to the northern end of
the Lake, and after landing, followed the east side of Jordan until
they passed near the place where the five thousand had been fed by a
miracle as they sat on the green hillside.

The disciples found that they had forgotten to bring bread with them.
They remembered, perhaps, that they had here eaten the bread that the
Lord had created; but the heart of Jesus was heavy with the thought of
the unbelief of the people He had come to save, and He said,

"Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."

The disciples did not understand Him, and wondered if He spoke thus
because they had not brought bread.

Then Jesus, seeing that they had but little faith, reminded them of the
supper on the hillside, when more than five thousand were fe