Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide flesh for his people?” Therefore Yahweh heard, and was angry. A fire was kindled against Jacob, anger also went up against Israel, because they didn’t believe in God, and didn’t trust in his salvation. Yet he commanded the skies above, and opened the doors […]
⛓ Read Psalm 78 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion2
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
The disciples' 'From where could one satisfy these people with bread here in a deserted place?' answers, in the negative, Israel's taunt 'Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?' (Ps 78:19), which the psalm then resolves with manna ('bread of the mighty', v.25). Coherence with Mark's wilderness-feeding theology is strong, and the verbal frame of doubting provision in the desert is close.
Medium confidence'Can God spread a table in the wilderness?... he rained down manna... they ate and were well filled.' The doubting question of 15:33 and the satisfied eating of 15:37 echo this recital of the wilderness feeding.
Medium confidence