Again in the Wilderness: Mark 8:1-10

Three days. The crowd had been with him for three days, and their food had run out.

"I have compassion for these people," Jesus said to his disciples. "They have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance."

The disciples' response is almost comical given what they had already witnessed: "But where in this remote place can anyone get enough bread to feed them?"

Had they forgotten? Had the multiplication of loaves and fish already faded from memory? The twelve baskets of leftovers—had those meant nothing?