How convinced are we that God's greatness is magnified in small insignificant things? In Judges 7, Gideon marched against the Midianites with only 300 men. He was tasked by God to do this, but the night before the assault he heard a man describe a dream where a barley cake fell into the tents of the Midianites and toppled them. It was a sign that Gideon would triumph over the Midianites. Barley bread was a low quality bread and the cheapest. This story signifies that a very common thing, very lowly and seemingly insignificant can do great things.

In the Gospel of John, only John uses the description of barley loaves, whereas the other Gospels, narrating the same miracle of the multiplication of loaves to feed five thousand men, use bread. As with Gideon, the five cheap barley loaves, which was the food of the common folks, were offered by an insignificant boy with his two fish to feed a huge crowd that day. Barley, a grain of the poor, was used to feed a rich harvest of people - a marvel done by God.

Similarly, in the Acts of the Apostles, Gamaliel could see that if the origin of the works of the Apostles was from God, it would survive and go big, and there was no point in them going against God. The small things we do, if we do them for God, will bear good fruits.