Mark 6:34-46 is a chiasm/ ring composition/ inverted parallelism format that is in Psalm 23 and Luke 15 with the account very carefully recorded. A series of ideas/events are presented, come to a climax and then are repeated backwards. Usually the center of such a rhetorical ring composition is either the climax of the passage or at least a point of special emphasis. Here that center includes three units (Mk 6:38-41a).
1. Mk 6:34 - A Crowd, Gathered, good shepherd needed
2. Mk 6:35-36 - All Need To Ead (no food)
3. Mk 6:37 - You Feed Them (we can't)
4. Mk 6:38 - Five Loaves Two Fish
6. Mk 6:41a - Five Loaves Two Fish
7. Mk 6:41b - You Feed Them (they can)
8. Mk 6:42-44 - All Eat All Filled (food left over)
9. Mk 6:45-46 - A Crowd, Dismissed, good shepherd takes charge
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