One Loaf Mk. 8:14

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Mass Introduction:

The Gospel (Mk. 8:14) this morning is "they had only one loaf with them in the ship". 

The "ONE LOAF" reference is the kind of remark Fr. Stephen would make, and I don't seem to remember this mention in the Gospels.

The 'one loaf' is only found in Mark.

It is not mentioned by Matthew.   

Mar 8:14  And they forgot to take bread: and they had but one loaf with them in the ship. (Douai Rheims)

It was the fourth retirement to Bethsaida Julias in the tetrarchy of Herod Philip with sharp rebuke of the dullness of the disciples

Matthew is parallel except for the minnor point in Mark, they had only one loaf. 

I fastened on to the 'one loaf' and it opened the whole of Jesus words.

It not surprising to find one exegete amplifying;

"Now the disciples had forgotten to take bread, neither had they in the ship with them more than one loaf — This is another example of that graphic circumstantiality which gives such a charm to this briefest of the four Gospels. The circumstance of the “one loaf” only remaining, as Webster and Wilkinson remark, was more suggestive of their Master’s recent miracles than the entire absence of provisions."  (J-F-B Comment)

Mark's 'one loaf' high lights the two multiplying of the loaves.

In the 'one loaf' of our Eucharist is the offering of the bread and wine and amplifies beyond  to the Body and Blood of Christ.

In this Eucharist we have recourse the the Father of mercy in our Confiteor.

Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf (1 Cor 10:17).  

Biblos Lexicon Mk. 8:14

NASB © Greek Transliteration Strong's Definition Origin And they had forgotten ἐπελάθοντο epelathonto 1950 to forget, neglect from epi andlanthanó to take λαβεῖν labein 2983 to take, receive from a prim. root lab- bread, ἄρτους artous 740 bread, a loaf of uncertain origin and did not have εἶχον eichon 2192 to have, hold a prim. verb more than 1508 if not from ei andmé one ἕνα ena 1520 one a primary number loaf ἄρτον arton 740 bread, a loaf of uncertain origin in the boat πλοίῳ ploiō 4143 a boat from pleó with them.

Latin: Biblia Sacra Vulgataet obliti sunt sumere panes et nisi unum panem non habebant secum in navi