The Life of Jesus

They brought him a man who was deaf and had a speech impediment and asked Yeshua to lay his hand on him.

Taking him off alone, away from the crowd, Yeshua put his fingers into the man's ears, spat, and touched his tongue;

then, looking up to heaven, he gave a deep groan and said to him, "Hippatach!" (that is, "Be opened!").

His ears were opened, his tongue was freed, and he began speaking clearly.

Yeshua ordered the people to tell no one; but the more he insisted, the more zealously they spread the news.

People were overcome with amazement. "Everything he does, he does well!" they said. "He even makes the deaf hear and the dumb speak!"

It was during that time that another large crowd gathered, and they had nothing to eat. Yeshua called his talmidim to him and said to them,

"I feel sorry for these people, because they have been with me three days, and now they have nothing to eat.

If I send them off to their homes hungry, they will collapse on the way; some of them have come a long distance."

His talmidim said to him, "How can anyone find enough bread to satisfy these people in a remote place like this?"

"How many loaves do you have?" he asked them. They answered, "Seven."

He then told the crowd to sit down on the ground, took the seven loaves, made a b'rakhah, broke the loaves and gave them to his talmidim to serve to the people.

They also had a few fish; making a b'rakhah over them he also ordered these to be served.

The people ate their fill; and the talmidim took up the leftover pieces, seven large basketsful.

About four thousand were there.

After sending them away, Yeshua got into the boat with his talmidim and went off to the district of Dalmanuta.

The P'rushim came and began arguing with him; they wanted him to give them a sign from Heaven, because they were out to trap him.

With a sigh that came straight from his heart, he said, "Why does this generation want a sign? Yes! I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation!"

With that, he left them, got into the boat again and went off to the other side of the lake.

Now the talmidim had forgotten to bring bread and had with them in the boat only one loaf.

So when Yeshua said to them, "Watch out! Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P'rushim and the hametz of Herod,"

they thought he had said it because they had no bread.

But, aware of this, he said, "Why are you talking with each other about having no bread? Don't you see or understand yet? Have your hearts been made like stone?

You have eyes -- don't you see? You have ears -- don't you hear? And don't you remember?

When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?" "Twelve," they answered him.