Pentecost Season · Year C
Corpus Christi: The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
Thursday After Trinity or 11 days after Pentecost · June 15, 2028
Overview & Insights
"And all ate and were satisfied. And what was left over was gathered up, twelve baskets of broken pieces." (Luke 9:17)
Jesus welcomes the crowds, heals and teaches them, and when evening comes takes five loaves and two fish, looks to heaven, blesses and breaks the bread, and feeds them all with abundance left over, the same fourfold action of taking, blessing, breaking, and giving that Corpus Christi hears again at the altar.
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Commentary
Luke 9 Commentary: The Kingdom of God is Preached Enduring Word · David Guzik
Walks through the feeding of the five thousand and its eucharistic overtones.
Luke 9 Commentary Precept Austin
Compiles commentary on the miracle and its place in Luke's Gospel.
Luke 9:11 Commentaries BibleHub
Classic commentaries together on the crowd, the loaves, and the twelve baskets.
Luke 9 (Barnes' Notes) StudyLight
Barnes on the sequence of taking, blessing, breaking, and giving the bread.
Luke 9 (Gill's Exposition) StudyLight
Gill's older Reformed reading of the miracle and its significance.
Luke 9 (Jamieson-Fausset-Brown) StudyLight
A concise nineteenth-century reading of the miracle's details.
Luke 9 (Calvin's Commentary) StudyLight
Calvin's Reformation-era exposition of the feeding miracle.
Luke 9:11 Interlinear BibleHub
Greek text word by word for the fourfold action of taking, blessing, breaking, giving.
Luke 9 (Robertson's Word Pictures) StudyLight
Robertson's notes on the Greek verbs behind the miracle's description.
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