The fact that many apocryphal stories of Jesus
doing miraculous acts as a boy were rejected by the church shows that for early Christians it was perhaps more important...
Not exact matches
But it is a fine balancing
act: Jesus
did show the people mercy when they needed it in the desert place, but He
did not let the
miraculous become a welfare agency.
In this and in the following account of a
miraculous feeding in Mark, people
do not grasp, hoard, resent, or
act selfishly; they watch as the juices of heaven multiply the bread of earth.