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Blessing Fish

Peter J. Leithart
September 15, 2008
Category: Bible - NT - Mark

Mark 8:7 says that Jesus “blessed” the fish before distributing them to the 4000. As my colleague Toby Sumpter points out, this is the verb of the sea creatures in Gen 1:27, where Yahweh tells them to be fruitful and multiply. Jesus too, the Creator incarnate, blesses fish to multiply in order to feed his Gentile crowd.

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