The Other Feeding

Matt 15:32-39

james.cuenod@my.wheaton.edu

Reading the
Feedings Together

The repetition of a similar episode is not merely an additional episode. It has a powerful rhetorical effect in which anticipation and retrospection and repetition with variation are involved. There is a complex texture of interlocking echoes forcing the implied reader to read one episode in the light of the other.

Janice Capel Anderson, Matthew’s Narrative Web:

Over, and Over, and over Again

Place in Matthew

What Do We Learn from the Chiasm

• Death & Resurrection
• Faith & the Disciples' Misapprehension
• Jesus' Teaching in contrast to the Pharisees'

(Vertically)

How the Feedings Work Together

(Horizontally)

• Structure
• The Lord's Supper and the Eschatological Banquet
• What Comes From the Mouth
• Faith and Misapprehension

james.cuenod@my.wheaton.edu