Jesus the Satisfies the Hunger of the People

To Read Click Mark 6:30-34

• This Teaching episode of Jesus is sandwiched between two events
  • The coming back of the 12 from their missionary journey successful yet tired.
    • Jesus recognises this and wants them to rest
    • And also help them understand all the wonders they have done on their missionary journey,
    • In the correct way
    • Lest they get carried away by pride or false understanding.
  • The other end of the sandwich is the miracle of feeding the 5000.
    • Where Jesus feeds the physical hunger of all those gathered.
    • Just like God fed the hunger of the Israelites in the Sinai Dessert.
• So what is it that is being taught here by Mark.
  • Jesus’s zealousness for the kingdom
    • He is mindful of the physical requirements under him
    • (asking the 12 to go a lonely place, so they may rest)
    • Yet he has invested his all, so he does not spare himself to go about the work God has asked him to do.
    • Jesus will pass on this mantle to Peter in the episode of John 21:15-19
  • “Feed my lambs.”
  • “Tend my sheep.”
  • “Feed my sheep.
  • Jesus understood
    • A boat without a rudder is directionless
    • He was helping people to understand how to worship God
  • In a proper spirit of charity/love
  • With all their heart, might and strength
  • With the proper understanding
  • Yes the miracles drove people to chase Jesus all over the countryside
    • But also his teachings/instructions
    • Because the Gospels say
    • He taught with great understand and insight (authority)
    • Unlike any of the priests, scribes or pharisees of that time.