“Great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all” (Matthew 12:15)  

Imagine the multitudes of sick and diseased sufferers who followed Christ. At one point He fed 5,000 men, plus women and children, so the number of people seeking healing must have also been huge. We don’t know what percentage of the multitude needed physical healing, but the Word says He healed them all. It could be He healed people just as indiscriminately as he fed them bread. There were cases when He healed people who didn't know who He was, but just had a general faith that God could heal. There were many in that multitude that received healing and bread, and had a general idea they wanted to be saved, but abandoned Christ when they were faced with His uncomfortable challenge.  

 After the 5,000 men, plus women and children were fed, Christ tells the multitude, “‘Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him’. Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?’. Jesus answered and said to them, ‘This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent’” (John 6:26-29). 

 What followed was a challenge to all who wanted to be saved. “‘Then Jesus said to them, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day’ ... Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, ‘This is a hard saying; who can understand it?’ ... And He said, ‘Therefore I have said to you that no one can come to Me unless it has been granted to him by My Father’ ... From that time many of His disciples went back and walked with Him no more. Then Jesus said to the twelve, ‘Do you also want to go away?’ But Simon Peter answered Him, ‘Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. Also we have come to believe and know that You are the Christ, the Son of the living God’ (John 6:53-69).