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To: Tax-chick

Interesting gender roles.....when Jesus fed the five thousand with loaves & fishes, He first said to His disciples, “Have the men recline”, for it was a grassy & comfortable space.

Was that so that the women would be the ones fetching & distributing the baskets of food?


10 posted on 08/14/2014 4:26:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: elcid1970

That certainly fits with the text, unless the apostles themselves served everyone.

Maybe (although it doesn’t say) the people were called up in groups, like at a buffet dinner: “The first two tables on the left, you go first ...” and so on. That would be consistent with one of the descriptions of their sitting “in companies on the grass, by twenties and fifties.”


11 posted on 08/14/2014 4:30:23 AM PDT by Tax-chick (No power in the 'verse can stop me.)
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To: elcid1970

**Was that so that the women would be the ones fetching & distributing the baskets of food?**

No, the apostles played this part in the scenario....remember they were learning to be leader/servants like Christ.


19 posted on 08/14/2014 4:39:14 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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