when five and two is not seven
74°F 82% and a gentle cool breeze seven floors up. The day promises to warm to 88° but for now is pleasant and should be for Monday’s outside walk in the Cove.
Okay, I admit, I don’t get it, from a “text” website this watercolor, ink, gouache titled “Feeding of the 5,000” by Ian Pollock.
In fact, looking at some of Pollock’s other works just now, it’s the first thing I recall coming across that exemplifies the idiom beggars description. The bread knife I do see, in fact we have one like it but with a white handle instead of red.
And maybe this below is a ravenously hungry multitude. But I just don’t get it, Ian.
But I do enjoy the gospel story for this coming Sunday morning and especially the Sunday school discussion that goes along with it, comparing Matthew’s narrative built around a saying for the same dynamic, compassionate “work of power” in Mark and Luke, and contrasting it with the pointedly purposeful “sign” in the Gospel according to John, who seems to have a different source, grasp, and understanding.
DThos+
Matthew 14:13-21
Jesus withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves." Jesus said to them, "They need not go away; you give them something to eat." They replied, "We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish." And he said, "Bring them here to me." Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.
Okay, I admit, I don’t get it, from a “text” website this watercolor, ink, gouache titled “Feeding of the 5,000” by Ian Pollock.
In fact, looking at some of Pollock’s other works just now, it’s the first thing I recall coming across that exemplifies the idiom beggars description. The bread knife I do see, in fact we have one like it but with a white handle instead of red.
And maybe this below is a ravenously hungry multitude. But I just don’t get it, Ian.
But I do enjoy the gospel story for this coming Sunday morning and especially the Sunday school discussion that goes along with it, comparing Matthew’s narrative built around a saying for the same dynamic, compassionate “work of power” in Mark and Luke, and contrasting it with the pointedly purposeful “sign” in the Gospel according to John, who seems to have a different source, grasp, and understanding.
DThos+
Matthew 14:13-21
Jesus withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them and cured their sick. When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, "This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves." Jesus said to them, "They need not go away; you give them something to eat." They replied, "We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish." And he said, "Bring them here to me." Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven, and blessed and broke the loaves, and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds. And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was left over of the broken pieces, twelve baskets full. And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.