<p>6:13 <i>So they gathered them up, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves which were left over by those who had eaten</i>- The twelve baskets clearly suggest the formation of a new Israel from the broken ones &quot;fragments&quot;, through the work of the disciples. We recall how the Gentile woman wished to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the table of the Jewish Kingdom (Mk. 7:28). This again encourages us to see this ingathering of broken ones, that left over by the Jewish crowd, as symbolic of the ingathering of the Gentiles by the disciples taking the Gospel to the Gentile world- a commission they were terribly slow to perceive.</p>