<p>8:19 <i>When I broke the five loaves among the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you gather? They said to him: Twelve</i>- The Lord&rsquo;s teaching style continually revolved around posing explicit and implicit questions to His hearers. John&rsquo;s Gospel contains a total of 161 questions; and one brief passage in Mark (Mk. 8:14-21) records how the Lord asked seven questions in quick succession. In this sense, the Lord Jesus intended to be intrusive into human life; He penetrates the depths of our being. His call to pick up a cross and follow Him was radical- so radical, that His hearers both then and now tended to even unconsciously negate the totally radical import of His demands.</p>