In life, the same concept is replicated.
The sign that you are being set up to multiply and have abundance with leftovers is in brokenness.
The point of breaking the fish and loaves catalyzed the supernatural ability of God and set in motion the process of multiplication.
The miracle of multiplication is hidden in brokenness.
Water has to break before a child is born, the soil has to break to produce a crop, a seed has to break before it can bud, clouds have to break to give rain.
The broken alabaster gave perfume; the broken heart gives room for the oil of healing to permeate through the cracks.
Before you can curse brokenness, consider Jesus was broken for the world and for Him to win the billions in it, He had to be broken.
You are being broken for something grand and beyond the natural senses.
The distributive property of multiplication is in breaking down things into groups before the final answer in a separate addition stage.
The fish and loaves were broken to feed the hungry.