them, with so small a quantity of food; in multiplying the provision in such a prodigious manner, that after they had eaten to the full, so many baskets of fragments were taken up: said, this is of a truth that prophet that should come into the world; meaning that prophet, that Moses spoke of, in Deu 18:15 ; for the ancient Jews understood this passage of the Messiah, though the modern ones apply it to others; See Gill on Act 3:22 . And these men concluded that Jesus was that prophet, or the true Messiah, from the miracle he wrought; in which he appeared, not only to be like to Moses, but greater than he.