Mark

continuing on…

no problems with what you have said, but i would like to add one more thing. THe crowd is 5000 ‘men’. Now presumably there were women and childern aswell, so it was a substantial number to feed.

John 6:13-15
“So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten. When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, ? “This is indeed ?the Prophet ?who is to come into the world!” Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus ?withdrew again to ?the mountain by himself.”

THe 12 baskets emphasise that the miracle provided ‘more than enough’ food for everyone.

It appears the crowd understood something of this miracle. THey new Moses had fed their forefathers, and rescued them from
Egypt. THey obviously knew Moses prophecy of ‘the prophet’ greater than him coming after him (Deut 18:15), however they misunderstood Jesus’ miracle. His ‘kingdom’ was not political but spritual. Before Jesus can be ‘king’ he had to complete his father’s
will and be the ‘sacrificial lamb’. Jesus knew their intentions so he withdrew by himself. The detail of ‘by himself’ becomes important futher into the passage.

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