8:17
Why had Jesus raised the yeast of the Pharisees question? I suspect that He knew what the disciples were thinking, and knew that they needed to learn. So Jesus asks them why they are wittering on about having no bread, having recently witnessed two feeding miracles which demonstrated that no bread was no great problem? “Are your hearts hardened?” What was the difference between the disciples and the Pharisees? Their level of spiritual awareness was roughly the same! The difference was that the disciples were willing to learn from Jesus.
8:18-21
Jesus challenges them, and then asks them questions about what had happened in the two feeding miracles. They had experienced the two miracles, had even taken part in them. Yet they had learnt nothing, or so it seemed. We can be the same. When we experience God’s help in a situation we should not simply accept it and move on, we need to consider what it tells us about God, how we can know Him better. We should reassess how we think in the light of God’s actions.
“Do you still not understand?” Jesus acts in our lives, and through us, not just to achieve the immediate aim, but also to teach us.
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