“And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?”
His disciples answered, but where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them? — the disciples' response is the same as before the first feeding: pragmatic, limited by ordinary resource calculation. The repetition of the disciples' failure to learn from the first feeding is Mark's point — verse 21 will make this explicit. The question where can anyone get enough bread is precisely the question answered by the first feeding, and yet the disciples ask it again. The hard hearts of Mark 6:52 have not softened.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!