The end of all misery

Jesus is the definitive Moses, the greatest Moses, the “prophet” whom Moses had announced in his discourse at the threshold of the Holy Land and of whom God had said: “I will put my words in his mouth, and he will tell them everything I command him” (Deut 18:18). It is therefore no coincidence that, at the end of the multiplication of the loaves and before the attempt to establish Jesus as king, we find this: “This is truly the great Prophet, the one who is to come into the world.” Similarly, after the announcement of the living water at the Feast of Tabernacles, the people say: “This is truly the great Prophet!” (Jn 7:40). […] Moses had given the bread from heaven. God himself had nourished Israel on its journey with the heavenly bread. For a people, many of whom suffered from hunger and the fatigue of daily labor, it was the promise of promises, which in a way condensed all hopes: the end of all misery, a gift that would calm hunger for all and forever.

Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI († 2022) was Pope from 2005 to 2013. / Jesus of Nazareth, I, From Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration, Paris, Flammarion, 2007, p. 291-292.