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the servants fill the jars with water. They did that, and 
it was as far as natural means could go; then came in 
His power and added the components needed to make 
the water wine. This done, the supernatural ceased, the 
natural again came into operation, for it was the servants 
that drew out the wine and bore it to the governor of the 
feast. 
Would hefeed the hungry thousands? He commanded 
them to sit down, took the bread and fishes, broke them, 
and gave to the disciples to distribute. Thus far all was 
in accordance with law, and it was as far as law could go. 
At that moment, the divine power came in and did the 
one thing impossible for nature: it caused the bread and 
fishes to multiply. 
Even here he kept as close to the natural method as 
was possible. Would we have an increase in our stock 
of food, we take wheat, and it produces wheat, or 
barley, and it produces barley. In all cases by natural 
law, we take a portion of that of which we would have 
more, and it multiplies. So here. He would have more 
bread, he took that, and it produced its own kind. He 
would have more of the fishes, and the animal fabric 
grew under his hands, and from what he had, came more 
of thesame kind. It was like producing like, ina strange, 
abnormal way, it is true, but no more inexplicable, in the 
last analysis, than is now what we call the natural pro- 
cess by which we get our food. 
After the increase of the loaves and fishes, there was 
no further need of miracle, all else proceeded in the usual 
way. The multitude ateand were refreshed in the or- 
dinary manner, and the disciples gathered up the frag- 
ments. 
Would He supply tribute money for His disciples? He 
told them what they could have learned from no power 
in nature, viz., where to throw the line to catch the fish 
which had seized the glittering coin, as it sank in the 
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