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I Am the Lad

Fifties and hundreds are set in companies upon the grass; Is not there a cause? Yea, but in this desert place, who will give Victuals to so great a multitude? Give ye them to Eat. But we have not the sufficiency to buy enough bread for all of these that they may even take a Little. How many loaves have ye? Go and see. Then One of the twelve said, There is a lad here with five loaves and two fishes, but Among so many what are they? Maybe we should send them away to the Villages. But Jesus said, Bring them hither to me; and He lifted up His Eyes, and blessed and brake the loaves, and gave them to His disciples to Set before the multitude; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would. When all were then filled and satisfied, Jesus said, The Fragments that remain, gather up that no thing be lost; and that Which was left over they gathered together and filled twelve baskets Of the five barley loaves and two small fishes that were blessed over and above unto those who had eaten, which were about Five thousand men, besides the women and children. And I, Stachys, I am the lad who gave and witnessed these things, not knowing the latter end Should greatly increase; yet, willingly, I still gave, and like the Heads of Grain that stand out from the stalk, even as the Ears of corn, I was made an abundance through grace to be a Supply for their want, and also a partaker with them lacking nothing. Scripture Compilation Matthew 14:15-21 Mark 6:35-44 Luke 9:12-17 John 6:5-13

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