There are a number of incidental details in the Gospel accounts of the feeding of 5000 that point to first-century Jewish customs. For some of those customs, our earliest known evidence of them comes from the New Testament
The Gospel accounts are also presented to imply that Jesus is acting as a new Moses bringing a new Exodus. I have posted more on this in a recent post to the Grace and Knowledge website.
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