ministry—and around the fact that Jesus is himself the bread that satisfies men spiritually. Only in John do we learn that the miracle took place at the time of the Passover, that the loaves of the young lad were barley loaves (the poorest kind), the reason for gathering up the fragments that remained, and the effect of the miracle on the masses. Incidentally, the difference in emphasis in the midst of an obvious agreement on all the details of the story by the four writers is evidence of the reliability