Should we take the miracle of the loaves and fishes seriously? [Spirituality & Religion]

Quite apart from the supernatural element, are we to believe that thousands of people were following Jesus around for days and none of them brought food?🤔
I guess they brought water though because there's no miracle of the water bottles.

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Abstraction · 61-69, M

It's not that complicated.
1. People go somewhere intending to listen and go home. Instead they keep following. It's pretty clear from the context of the four gospels that this happened on multiple occasions - people following him round so that to get away he had to cross the lake.
2. People didn't drive in those days, so wherever you walked you knew where the water sources were. That was just normal. And perhaps Jesus was sufficiently intelligent to not walk into a place where 5000 plus people following who were ill-prepared would perish for lack of water.

Pikachu

@Abstraction

So the people were sufficiently intelligent to not follow Jesus into places where there wasn't water but not sufficiently intelligent to say "Oh dang, looks like we're actually going to be out here for a minute. Go back and get some food".

Ok

Abstraction · 61-69, M

People were used to fasting for religious purposes or mourning - it's not particularly surprising that they kept following if they felt this was life changing. 3 days without food isn't much, goodness. Jesus was being considerate in case there were a few who had overdone it. You occasionally find some good dilemmas. This is not one of those.

LadyJ · F

@Pikachu i see you question everything about christianity are you muslim?