Feed My Sheep

This Sunday's reading from the Revised Common Lectionary is Mark 6:30-34,53-56. Notice the huge gap.

The apostles gathered around Jesus, and told him all that they had done and taught. 31 He said to them, ‘Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while.’ For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. 32 And they went away in the boat to a deserted place by themselves. 33 Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they hurried there on foot from all the towns and arrived ahead of them. 34 As he went ashore, he saw a great crowd; and he had compassion for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many things.

53 When they had crossed over, they came to land at Gennesaret and moored the boat. 54 When they got out of the boat, people at once recognized him, 55 and rushed about that whole region and began to bring the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was. 56 And wherever he went, into villages or cities or farms, they laid the sick in the market-places, and begged him that they might touch even the fringe of his cloak; and all who touched it were healed.

So what did the Sunday pewsitters miss? Did they even notice?

They did not get to hear about the miracle of the loaves and fishes feeding 5000 men, and they did not hear about Jesus walking on the water. I guess those things were felt by the editors to possibly strain the listeners belief, and we can't have that. 

Serve us up the whole Gospel. After all, When Jesus said, "Feed my sheep", do you think he meant a watered down meal?