How often had Jesus healed the multitude? How often had he healed individuals? How little healing power any of those people manifested themselves? How great was His sorrow when He said Jerusalem, Jerusalem, I would love to tell you and show you, but you cannot accept it? The people were grateful for loaves and fish. But, Jesus was seeking thankfulness for a principle that he was showing forth and which they were unable to grasp. Three times or more, Jesus fed the multitudes. He fed four thousand, five thousand, seven thousand. Not only did he feed the multitudes, but he healed them and taught the truth to those who could hear. But after he had fed the multitudes on one side of the sea, he felt a heavy sense within himself that his message had not reached his people. He felt a sense of discouragement in the realization that they had failed to catch the vision.