Obviously it teaches that God does not only just succeed in providing salvation to people. His power is not limited. In his great goodness and love Christ can provide salvation for all who come to him; God has no shortage of grace . No one should say, ‘He may not have enough power to save me.’ All are invited to come, but all will not come; all will not listen to him; all will not desire him.
It teaches also that salvation is going to continue. Others will be brought into the kingdom of heaven. The twelve baskets tell us that all were fed, all were provided for, and ate as much as they desired, but there was provision for others also. Many more are yet to be brought in. ‘Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood shall never lose its power, till all the ransomed ones of God be saved, to sin no more.’ Those are the baskets that remain. Salvation fills the hearts and the minds and the wills of all who come to Jesus Christ.
Some of those people who were involved in that miracle – perhaps many of them and who ate of that bread and who had proved to them the divinity of the Lord – remained as unbelievers. They rejected him even though they were part of such an amazing event. The scripture tells us they considered not the miracle of the loaves because their hearts were hardened. Only those people who recognize that they are sinners, that they need reconciliation with God, that they can do nothing themselves to secure his favour and who depend upon Christ and put their trust in him, can be saved.