Although Jesus is seeking rest, he has compassion on the crowd and involves the 12 fully in the miracle of multiplication. There are many lessons to be learnt.

5. The feeding of the 5,000

The third tour of Galilee is different from the previous two tours because Jesus commissions and sends the twelve disciples to travel around in pairs preaching and performing miracles just as they had seen him do previously. The training of the second tour was to be put into practice. Meanwhile Jesus also continued to travel around and preach. During this tour we can see that opposition to Jesus is beginning to grow amongst some people.

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