Jesus' Fourth Sign Feeding of teh 5,000 John 6:1-15

Today we are in our fourth sermon in the series called The Seven Signs of Jesus from the Gospel of John.

As I have mentioned that John used seven signs very intentionally.

Seven signs were used throughout Scripture to represent perfection or completeness.

The signs John chose by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit was to prove that Jesus is the Son of God and the fulfillment of the law and the prophets.

John knew that Jesus was the completion of the law so the seven signs communicated his knowing that Jesus is the anointed one that Israel has longed to see.

John 20:30–31 (ESV)

Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Each one of these signs helps establish a deeper faith for believers already in Christ and helps non-believers to come to know Jesus as the Son of God and Savior of the World.

Each one of these seven signs that John describes signify something greater than just the sign itself as we will study and unpack again in this series.

The first sign of turning water into wine symbolized that at Jesus’ coming a new covenant has begun.

The ceremony pots that Jesus used could only bring temporary cleansing but the water turned into the wine by those ceremony pots showed this new wine would bring an eternal cleansing.

The second sign of healing the Official’s son demonstrated the power in the Word.

At the spoken Word of Jesus the Official’s son recieved his healing.

The third sign of Healing the paralyzed man who had lived 38 years without the ability to walk was to show again at the spoken Word of Jesus healing takes place.

The third sign was done on the Sabath which showed that Jesus is Lord over the Sabath and that He places people’s needs in front of rituals and ceremonies.

Now today we will unpack Jesus’ Fourth Sign of Feeding the 5,000

John 6:1–15 ESV

1 After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, which is the Sea of Tiberias. 2 And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. 3 Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was at hand. 5 Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” 6 He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. 7 Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, 9 “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?” 10 Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. 11 Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. 12 And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” 13 So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. 14 When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!” 15 Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus withdrew again to the mountain by himself.