probing metaphors. They sidestepped the parabolic language and focused their mental powers on the literal facts: they had not brought any bread with them.”2 Jesus’s frustration with his disciples signals a pressing need for ministers to go beyond surface observations about life and ministry. He wanted them to go deep. In Mark’s Gospel, Jesus did not reprimand the disciples for not believing;3 the real problem was not seeing and understanding.4 The danger of the hardened heart is not for those who