Matthew 15:29 Jesus went on from there and walked beside the Sea of Galilee. And he went up on the mountain and sat down there. 30 And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them, 31 so that the crowd wondered, when they saw the mute speaking, the crippled healthy, the lame walking, and the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.
We saw yesterday at the end of chapter 15 that people responded to Jesus, asking to just touch the end of His garment. In this chapter, after rebuking the Pharisees, Jesus went to the region around Tyre and Sidon, and then around the Sea of Galilee, to the fringes of Israel, where people were not as ingrained as Jews. The response there was different. They did not just want to "touch and run," They brought loved ones to see and hear Jesus, to see what He had to say. The result, in the following paragraph, was Jesus repeated the feeding of the 5000 with what we call the feeding of the 4000. They deserved to see and hear as well. Are we mor like the "touch and run" or "sit and listen"?
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