The Multitude Is Miraculously Fed

In 3 Nephi 20:1–9, Jesus miraculously administered bread and wine to the multitude. Consider the following questions:

• How long had they been kneeling down? Perhaps continuously beginning at 19:17?
• How was this bread and wine different from the bread and wine used in 18:1? See 19:6–7.
• Does this event suggest that the feeding of the thousands in Galilee was also sacramental?
• How did this ordinance affect the people? See 20:9. How can the sacrament have the same effect on people today?

After all the spiritual manifestations, repeatedly kneeling in steadfast prayer, being baptized and “encircled about as if it were by fire” (19:4), hearing and seeing Jesus pray unto the Father in their behalf and smile upon them (19:30), and being filled with the Spirit of the gift of the Holy Ghost which they had been given (20:9), and after “they had all given glory unto Jesus” (20:10), the people were prepared to receive his teachings of the second day.