“Let me paint the picture for you,” he writes, returning to the story of the feeding of the 5,000. “Jesus and His disciples hop into a boat and sail to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. Along the shore, people follow all the way to the other side! When Jesus and the disciples reach the shore, they are greeted by an ever-growing crowd. Matthew 14:21 says there were “about five thousand men, besides women and children.”