 See, growing faith was God's purpose, was Jesus' purpose in the story of the miracle of the feeding of the 5,000. I'm going to prove this to you. The whole thing that Jesus was trying to accomplish in the story of the feeding of the 5,000 was not the feeding of the 5,000. That was not an issue for him. The issue was his disciples needed to learn more faith. Look at John 6, verses 5 and 6 again.