# Today’s lecturer is the assistant pastor Mizuguchi
1. The legend
After the day of Pentecost we continued reading the Gospel according to Mark. Last Sunday’s lecturing passage was the story about Jesus’ act of feeding five thousand. Jesus performed the miracle because of his compassion on the crowd who were “like sheep without a shepherd"(Mark 6:34).
Today we commence for 5 sessions to reflect in detail on the same feeding story according to John. The Gospel writer John added extended significance to the event by interpreting the bread as Jesus corps on the Cross. In other words he described the episode as background of the upcoming Passion. (³¤…)