The skepticism of man – By Fr. Dimitrios Bokustranslated

THE SKEPTICISM OF MAN By Fr Dimitrios Bokus

Countless multitudes (five thousand men, not counting women and children), carrying their patients, sought Christ in the wilderness where he was. Christ, seeing them as "sheep without a shepherd", took pity on them and taught them a lot "about the kingdom of God".

Night came, but no one was leaving. The students expressed their anguish: Dismiss them, to look for food in the nearest villages. But Christ said: "You give them to eat." The students fell from the clouds! "We have only five loaves and two fish." How is it possible for so many people to eat? Can we go and buy food for so many people? Even the huge sum of two hundred dinars would not be enough, not to satisfy them, but not for everyone to get a piece (Matthew 8th Sunday).

Christ was even teasing Philip, saying to him: "Where shall we buy bread for these to eat?" (John 6, 5). The students expressed the same concern a little later, when another "four thousand men without women and children" had to be fed.

Although they had seen the miracle of feeding the five thousand with…