away, because surely she is right: she is not asking for the children’s bread, only the leftover crumbs. And we readers, who have just come from the feeding of the five thousand in the previous chapter, and are about to go on to another miraculous feeding, smile at her cleverness. After all, we have just seen how many crumbs are left over when God has finished feeding the children—twelve baskets, wasn’t it? So this first level of the story is about Jesus coming to a fuller realization of the scope