[Verse 1]
Been here for days, I'm amzed (at) this teacher, carpenter, preacher
Lost in the crowd, I hear him now, he's praying and he's saying,
"God feed them all"
Five-thousand men, all of his friends are worried find bread and hurry
Five loaves and fish, what can he wish, he's praying
Still he's saying "God feed them all"
Chorus:
Could he be the messiah?
Miracle man, part of the plan
Could he be the Messiah?
Life in his hand
I understand he could be...
Meet for our needs fully he feeds our hunger older and younger
Twelve baskets more, can we ignore,
He shows us taht he knows us,
Is he the Christ?
God in his eyes, I realize his power, need of the hour
Jesus is his name, they say he came to feed us and to resolve us, is he the Christ?
It is he the messiah!
Miracle man, part of the plan
It is he the messiah!
Life in his hand
I understand it is he
Could He Be The Messiah
Song Meaning
Michael W. Smith retells the feeding of the five thousand in "Could He Be The Messiah" almost entirely from the crowd's point of view rather than the disciples'. "Been here for days, I'm amazed at this teacher, carpenter, preacher" keeps the observer's perspective plain and a little starstruck, watching from inside a crowd that doesn't yet know what it's about to witness.
"Five loaves and fish, what can he wish, he's praying, still he's saying 'God feed them all'" holds the math of the miracle in view even before it happens, letting the sheer insufficiency of the food make the question in the title feel earned rather than rhetorical. "Twelve baskets more, can we ignore, he shows us that he knows us" ties the abundance directly to a claim about being personally seen, not just fed.
The shift from "could he be" in the verses to "it is he" in the closing chorus tracks the crowd's own movement from wondering to conviction, letting the song's central question answer itself through the miracle rather than through argument.