I may be totally off on this, but I don’t think that Jesus multiplying bread and fish was the miracle in this narrative. While trying to read the text through a lens of first century Jewish eyes I see righteous actions of Jesus’ home community as the lynchpin to the miracle.
If Jesus was Jewish, which he was, what was happening for him as he learns of the death of John the baptist, how was he expected to lament and grieve?
How are the disciples expected to respond to him?
How was crowd, good and faithful Jews that they are, supposed to respond to him?
And what was God doing, commanding and prompting in the midst of it all?
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