And his disciples say unto him, Whence should we have so much bread in the wilderness, as to fill so great a multitude?
Ver. 33. Whence should we have, &c.] See their stupidity and diffidence, yet still budging and breaking out upon all occasions. a What a life hath Christ with the best of us, ere he can bring us to anything? Corruption will have stone flurts, some outbursts. Nothing cleaves to us more pertinaciously than this evil heart of unbelief; like a fretting leprosy in our cottages of clay, though the walls be well scraped, yet it will never utterly be gone, till the house be demolished.
a Discipuli ut homines nimis homines, &c. Aret. in loc.