Jesus preaching to thousands

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This may be an off-the-wall question but I have often wondered how Jesus was able to preach to four or five thousand people at a time and be heard.

Assuming that he was not assisted by a mystical voice-transporter that carried his words miraculously to the ear of each hearer (although I have no reason to make that assumption), how could his voice have carried to such a crowd?

I have been to the ancient Greek amphitheaters, where a whisper from the stage can be heard from the farthest row, but Jesus spoke in the open air. How did it work? Anybody have a clue?
 
If God can make me listen to Him, He can do it for anyone. I know this doesn’t really answer your question except by way of saying that with God all things are possible.
 
There are natural amphitheaters everywhere. That is where the Greeks and the Romans got the idea.
Once he spoke from a boat and used the rising shore line as a amphitheater.
 
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did He say ‘blessed are the cheese makers?’
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:rotfl: Say what?
 
(from ‘the life of brian’, by monty python. the people in the back of the crowd can’t hear when brian is speaking, and think he says ‘blessed are the cheese makers’.)
 
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mercygate:
This may be an off-the-wall question but I have often wondered how Jesus was able to preach to four or five thousand people at a time and be heard.
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We can only speculate how Jesus was able to do so, since remember, Jesus is not just a man but the God-man. Yet, is this far more strange than His act of raising Lazarus from the dead? How do we “explain” the fact that with a mere gesture He was able to calm the raging storm that terrified His disciples?

Gerry 🙂
 
Well my thoughts on a very human level would be that not all heard, of course, the words directly from the mouth of Jesus if there were thousands there, but the word would have filtered through as they sat and ate. Of course there would have been many discussions on what they had just heard.

Funny it reminds me of the time a million and three quarters turned out to see the Pope in Dublin, Ireland in 1979. The mics did not work for the beginning of Mass and so the blessing was not heard. Yet all knew by watching others and their example that they were to make the sign of the cross without hearing the Pope say open the Mass with the blessing. If the Pope can have that effect on a million and three quarters??? The I guess the God-Man can effect the multitude also!!

Thousands were there out of curiosity to see the man that all were raging about. The one who could heal the sick, make the blind to see and the lame to walk, the dead to rise etc… To see him was on the mind of each of the thousands there. Maybe even to touch him as was the case with the woman who had the issue of blood for 12 years.
Remember that Jesus told they Apostles not to send the crowd away after he had finished speaking to them but they were to make them sit and feed them. How did 12 make 1000’s sit? By word filtering through that all had to sit. I guess this was so that they would sit and talk about what they had just heard ad in this way it would filter through to all ears.

How did three loaves and two fish feed the multitude? Now we have moved onto the divine level which of course was the other nature of Christ.
 
Maybe Jesus was just really, really loud.

– Mark L. Chance.
 
‘Maybe Jesus was just really, really loud.’

i wish He were a little louder with ME. He seems to always be whispering…
 
Much appreciation for both the serious and the cheerfully frivolous responses on this thread!
 
I just got a mental picture of the apostles running around as Jesus is beginning his sermon, telling everybody to “Shhhhh, Shhhhh” and Him patiently waiting for them to shut up so he can make himself heard.
 
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I just got a mental picture of the apostles running around as Jesus is beginning his sermon, telling everybody to “Shhhhh, Shhhhh” and Him patiently waiting for them to shut up so he can make himself heard.
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Not in the least unlikely, I would think!
 
If the Apostles could speak in tongues, so that each person heard the preaching in their native language, how difficult would it have been for Our Lord to have a gift that allowed a thousand people to hear him with their hearts, rather than their ears?
 
certainly nothing is impossible with God, so not difficult at all.

but i lean toward the amphitheater idea.
 
I believe it isn’t unreasonable to suppose that Christ has a way of supernaturally making Himself heard by that vast multitude, as though each of those listening are seated at roughly the same distance from Jesus.
Gerry 🙂
 
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