Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself

John 6:1-15

When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming toward him, he said to Philip, “Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?” He asked this only to test him, for he already had in mind what he was going to do. 

Philip answered him, “It would take more than half a year’s wages to buy enough bread for each one to have a bite!”

Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among so many?”

Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” There was plenty of grass in that place, and they sat down (about five thousand men were there). Jesus then took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed to those who were seated as much as they wanted. He did the same with the fish.

After the people saw the sign Jesus performed, they began to say, “Surely this is the Prophet who is to come into the world.” Jesus, knowing that they intended to come and make him king by force, withdrew again to a mountain by himself.

That day when Jesus fed the crowd of people stands out clearly in John's mind, and he tells us details missing from the other three accounts. He remembers which disciples replied to Jesus's question: he recalls the lad who gave up his lunch. 

Why?

In people's minds, it is impossible to feed so many people, it needs a lot of money and much effort to purchases from the field.

Philip and Andrew replied as usual people consideration. It is true, but Jesus did the miracle.

People saw these miracles, they intended to make Jesus be a king, but this is not Jesus' purpose to come to the world.

There is no difficulty to Jesus, he can change water to wine, and support food for over 5000 people.

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耶穌行神蹟，是人想看、好奇而來跟隨耶穌，其實人只為吃飽而已。

腓利：他來自伯塞大，他熟悉這個地方，思考模式是覺得沒有能力，我們思考是否能做，而不是思考神是否可能? 他已經看過耶穌兩次行神蹟，還是用人的方法在思考！

小孩子的想法，他能夠拿出他僅有的，這些都是窮人的食物，大麥餅、魚(不是新鮮的)，這是窮人且是小孩子的奉獻，神使用這個最不起眼的人的奉獻。

安得烈把人帶到神面前，讓這個神蹟發生，我們把人帶到神面前，我們不知道會發生什麼事情?

人已經累了，耶穌說你們給他們吃吧！現在不是休息的時間，耶穌讓他們經歷神的話，也解決了自己的民生問題。

12籃表示神蹟的影響不僅在這餐，而是超越時間、空間。神蹟大的人會注意，但是小神蹟常常發生，我們卻常不在意。零碎的五餅二魚，累積起來也是神蹟。

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How?

Save people from sins is more important than eating. All of the suffering comes from sins.