The 1st reading from Mass this morning is taken from the 2nd Book of Kings:
Elisha said, "Give it to the people to eat." But his servant objected, "How can I set this before a hundred people?" Elisha insisted, "Give it to the people to eat." "For thus says the LORD, 'They shall eat and there shall be some left over.'"
And when they had eaten, there was some left over, as the LORD had said.
This prophesy by Elisha the prophet is fulfilled in this passage, but is fulfilled more completely in the Gospel reading from St John:
When they had had their fill, he (Jesus) said to his disciples, "Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted."
So they collected them, and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat.
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