Jesus stood ready for an exchange. He said, “Bring them here.” They brought to Him their limitation in the two fish and five loaves and He was prepared to release His abundance.
The crowd sat down on the dry prickly grass hungered to be filled.
Like watching a tense presentation, the crowd was still, Peter could hear the blade of grass bend as the disciples stood by watching the display of a miracle about to unfold.
Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke the loaves. Then He gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave to the people.
They all ate and were full, and the disciples picked up twelve baskets of broken pieces that were left over.
The miracle was not in the distribution but in the production.
The moment Jesus lifted the loaves and fish to heaven and gave thanks, He surrendered the notable limitation of the fish and bread and heaven responded by infusing a supernatural ability to multiply. But there was one more thing that Jesus needed to do. “He broke the loaves and the fish”. Matthew 14:19
To complete the supernatural circuit, something had to be broken.
