On two occasions Jesus demonstrated his miraculous power by feeding multitudes of people with just a meager amount of food at the beginning. People began to follow him for what he could do for them physically by healing them and feeding them. Once they even wanted to make him their king.

The Jews were offended when he called himself "the bread of life" and as "the living bread that came down from heaven". They did not understand at all and turned away from him because the saying was so foreign to them and hard to grasp.