Has anyone else seen the one view on the different baskets of food left over? I stumbled on a view that I thought was interesting.
The baskets in John are small ones (G2894) and the baskets in Mark are large ones. (G4711) The analogy is such:
The 12 represent the tribes and are fewer than the gentiles. The 7 larger baskets represent the 7 heathen tribes, gentiles, displaced for the Israelites.
Christ was in the Jewish area of Tiberias, west of the Sea of Galilee, when He fed the people having 12 left over.
He was in Decapolis, east of the Sea of Galilee, a gentile area, when He had the 7 left over.
The bread obviously being Christ, the bread of life, being sufficient for all.