Everyone ate as much as they wanted, and when they were done eating, his followers gathered up the leftovers—seven baskets full!
“He prepares a great feast for the ones who are hungry, but sends the fat ones home with empty bellies.
“This is a lonely and desolate place,” they answered him. “Where could we find enough food to feed all these people?”
They had fed four thousand men, besides women and children.
But some of his followers snuck him out at night by lowering him down in a basket from an opening in the village walls.