Questions

Feeding 4,000 (Mk 8:1-9; Mt 15:29-39)

(Questions for meditation)

  1. What are the similarities between this miracle and that of feeding 5,000 (Mark 6:30-44)?

  2. What are the differences between the two miracles?

  3. What’s the author’s purpose of recording both similar miracles that happened so close to each other?

  4. Jesus finally sent the people away. Why didn’t Jesus let them continue to follow him and listen to his teachings? (John 6:26-27)

  5. Are you also committing the same mistake as stated in John 6:27?