After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.
6:1–15 Jesus’ feeding the 5,000 recalls the great OT miracle of bread when Israel was in the wilderness (Exod 16:1–36). The rabbis of Jesus’ day expected the coming Messiah to “rain down food from heaven” once again (Exod 16:4), and he did.