Who He's supposed to be?
In my studying this morning, I was looking at a passage I have read many times, but caused some serious reflection in me today. Its the story of Jesus feeding the 5000, and its actually found in all four gospels, one of the few stories that is in all the gospels ((Matthew 14-Matthew 14:13-21; Mark 6-Mark 6:31-44; Luke 9-Luke 9:12-17; John 6-John 6:1-14)) Anyways, after the miracle, there is this ending, which I think we gloss over because we are so excited by the miracle, and the huge miracle of feeding 5000 people with 5 loaves and 2 fish becomes our focus. And it truthfully is the main point of the story, but the ending has a great point too. After this miracle, the people get all excited, as you would having just experienced that miracle. They are all excited and they say "Surely this must be the Prophet that was to come". It then says something interesting. "Jesus knew that they were about to come and seize him in order to make him king by force, so he went off ag