And Jesus saith unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few little fishes.
Ver. 34. Seven, and a few little fishes] Before, he had fed five thousand with fewer loaves. God can as easily maintain us with a little as with more; witness Daniel's pulse, and Elijah's cake on the coals and cruse of water,1 Kings 19:6; Luther's herring, and Junius's one egg a day, when means were short with him, by reason of the civil wars in France, so that he could not hear from his friends. It is not by bread only that man liveth, but by the word of God's blessing that maketh it nourishable. As if he break the staff of bread, that is, his own blessing, which is the staff whereon bread (that staff of life) leaneth, it can neither feed nor fill, make men neither fuller nor fatter.