I think Jesus did take the bread and the fish from the people that brought some then he performed the miracle but I believe they gathered the food from the people that did have it
I think Jesus did take the bread and the fish from the people that brought some...
The food came from one young boy, about 12 years old, whose mother had packed him a lunch.
8” One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him, 9 “There is a lad here who has five barley loaves and two small fish, but what are they among so many?” John 6:8
But it was voluntary, right? Big difference.