Topic Choices (Choose One)
Choice 1: Matthew 14:14–21; 15:32–38. The Feeding of the Multitudes
- The Savior provided two similar miracles. As a summary of what took place, complete the following chart:
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Matthew 14:14-21
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Matthew 15:32-38
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How many people were present?
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5,000 men, beside women and
children
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4,000 men, beside women and
children
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What did they need?
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Food
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Food
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What were they able to offer in an
effort to meet that need?
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Five Loaves, Two Fishes
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Seven Loaves, and a few little
fishes
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What words or phrases describe the
Savior’s feeling toward the multitudes in their time of need?
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Moved with compassion, Healed
their sick, They need not depart, give ye them to eat
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Compassion on the multitude,
concern,
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What words or phrases describe
what the Savior was able to provide for the multitudes?
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And they did all eat, and were
filled, and they took up the fragments that remained twelve baskets full
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They did all eat, and were filled,
took up of th broken meat that was left seven baskets full
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- In each story, the available food was insufficient to feed the multitude, yet with the help of the Lord the insufficiency was overcome. Read Romans 3:23 and explain in writing another way human effort is insufficient in receiving the glory of God. According to Ether 12:27, how does the Lord help us overcome this insufficiency?
Romans 3:23 says, “For all have
sinned and come short of the glory of God.” All humans, everywhere, who have
ever lived have sinned. One way that we as individuals fall short of receiving
the glory of God is we sin. If Adam and Eve had not of partaken of the fruit of
tree, the would have lived in ignorance forever, not knowing good from evil or
learning, growing and progressing. If they had partaken of the fruit and a
Savior did not come to perform the atonement for all mankind, we would have been
stuck in our sins forever. We could not have returned and received the glory of
God without his help. Without the Savior and our Heavenly Father’s plan all
humankind would be stuck in their sins and not able to return to live with Him.
Ether 12:27 says, “And if men
come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness
that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble
themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith
in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them.” The Lord
helps us overcome our insufficiency by making our weaknesses strengths.
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