Sunday School - 3rd Grade

Reading Portion: Mark 8:1-9

Jesus was preaching for few days in a wilderness, where they had no food or stores nearby. Great multitudes came to him to hear the word of God and get healed. The third day He felt compassion on the people and He called his disciples and said to them that they needed to be fed. If we don’t feed them before they leave, they can faint or become sick. But the disciples did not understand the mind of Jesus, so they answered and said that this is the “wilderness”, how are we going to get food in the wilderness to feed this huge crowd?

Someone in the crowd had seven pieces of bread and few small fishes. He asked the people to sit on the ground, and then took the bread and fish and blessed it and broke it in pieces. Then he asked the disciples to serve everyone. They fed around 4,000 people and there was still some food left over.

Memory Verse: 1st peter 3:8-9
8Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
9Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

Moral: Jesus had compassion on those who were hungry and fed them. We should also be compassionate like Jesus.