showing that Jesus is in the line of the prophets, but working a far greater miracle. Instead of Elisha’s proportion of 20:100, Jesus’s is 5:5,000; not five people to a loaf (more like a pitta-bread), but a thousand. The elements, however, are the same: Elisha Jesus 1) Command to give them food 2 Kgs 4:42 Mk 6:37a 2) Reply: ‘This is absurd’ 4:43a 6:37b 3) Repetition of command 4:43b 6:39 4) Feeding 4:44a 6:41 5) They eat and have some left over 4:44b 6:42–44. More particularly, the New Testament