he was “that prophet” and trying to take him by force to make him king, they do nothing of the sort when they finally do find him. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 43.1–2.1 AUGUSTINE: So he who had fled to the mountain mixes and converses with the multitude. Only a little while before they would have kept him and made him king.… But after the sacrament of the miracle, he begins to teach … and fills their souls with his word whose bodies he had just satisfied with bread—provided
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