About this time every year, social media explodes with the same “news” — your canned pumpkin is actually squash! It has no pumpkin in it at all! You’re buying into a lie, then baking it at 375 degrees for an hour and putting it on your Thanksgiving Day table!
The truth is considerably less exciting.
Mark 8 includes an interesting postscript to the narrative of the feeding of the 4,000. Like Matthew, Mark follows the story immediately with the discussion among the disciples about not having any bread — ironic in the extreme, given the circumstances. After all, He had just provided an enormous amount of food with practically nothing to work with — for the second time!
