The feeding of the five thousand and the popular movement to make Jesus king was the apex of the miracle-seeking, wonder-working expectance of the people. [1] At the feeding of the five thousand Jesus challenged the ideas of the material Messiah. [2] This is the first and only nature miracle which Jesus performed as a result of his conscious preplanning. [3]
See also: UB 152:2; UB 152:3.1.