2 Kings - Chapter 4

This chapter is full of links to Jesus.  I could write about miraculous births; raising from the dead; care for widows and the hungry.  But I shall choose the story of the miraculous feeding of the multitude.

"a man came from Baal Shalishah, bringing Elisha twenty loaves of bread made from the first barley harvested that year, and some freshly-cut heads of grain. Elisha told his servant to feed the group of prophets with this, but he answered, “Do you think this is enough for a hundred men?” Elisha replied, “Give it to them to eat, because the Lord says that they will eat and still have some left over.” So the servant set the food before them, and as the Lord had said, they all ate, and there was still some left over."

This clearly links to the feeding of a multitude by Jesus - which was on a much larger scale.  In John 6 we read:

"“For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins to buy enough bread.” Another one of his disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, said, “There is a boy here who has five loaves of barley bread and two fish. But they will certainly not be enough for all these people.” “Make the people sit down,” Jesus told them. (There was a lot of grass there.) So all the people sat down; there were about five thousand men. Jesus took the bread, gave thanks to God, and distributed it to the people who were sitting there. He did the same with the fish, and they all had as much as they wanted. When they were all full, he said to his disciples, “Gather the pieces left over; let us not waste a bit.” So they gathered them all and filled twelve baskets with the pieces left over from the five barley loaves which the people had eaten."

Note that not only is the general story linked, but also the points of detail - in each case there were barley loaves; in each case there was a reluctance by the followers, because the plan looked impossible; and in each case there was food left over.