Four times it was written to impart invaluable lessons of the utter lavishness of God’s faithfulness and love for us. It is a foretaste of something greater than the miracle itself: our Lord Jesus Christ’s Eucharistic generosity, the Bread of Life so that anyone who believes in Him shall thirst and hunger no more.
Our compassionate Christ sees our human condition and understands that even the works of discipleship can break our human spirit.
Philip would not buy into Jesus’ suggestion to get food to feed the five thousand hungry men, not counting the women and children, because it could be very expensive and they could not afford it.