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Podcast: The Bible as Literature
Episode: Give Them Something to Eat
Description: In Matthew 14, Jesus commands his disciples to feed the people with the bread of his Father’s instruction, the five loaves of life-giving bread, representing the fives books of Moses. Sharing that bread is the “chief” and only duty of Peter—the “chief” of the apostles—and it is the “chief” responsibility of the “chief” priests and the elders of the people for the sake of the people of Judea, whom Judas represents in Matthew 27—And how did the assembly of “chiefs” and “elders” respond in the peoples’ hour of need? “What is that to us?”