“Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.”
Send the people away so they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat — the disciples' proposed solution is the obvious human response: send them away to find their own food. The proposal is not selfish — they are thinking about the crowd's welfare. But the solution is a sending away rather than a feeding — it addresses the crowd's need by removing them from the place of need rather than meeting the need where they are. The disciples are thinking in the categories of scarcity; Jesus is about to act in the categories of kingdom abundance.
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