Vss. 30-34: Jesus’ Compassion on the Multitude.
John 9:4: I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.
Adam Clark said; “Rest is necessary for those who labor; and a zealous preacher of the Gospel will as often stand in need of it as a galley slave.”
Matthew 14:14: When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick.
Compassion in Greek is splagchnizomai (splangkh-ned’-zo-mi)
“to have the bowels yearn” feel sympathy, to pity: (for the bowels were thought to be the seat of love and pity)
Numbers 27:17; Who shall go out before them and come in before them, who shall lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be as sheep that have no shepherd.”
Ezekiel 34:5: So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered;
- Vss. 35-44: Jesus Feeds The Multitude.
John 6:8-9: One of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to him, “There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what are they for so many?”
William Lane said; “Jesus faithfully followed the accepted form: he took the bread in his hands, pronounced the blessing, broke the bread into pieces and distributed it. The only deviation from normal practice was that while praying Jesus looked toward heaven rather than downward, as prescribed.”
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