John 6:5 When Jesus looked up and saw a great crowd coming towards him, he said to Philip, ‘Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?’
When Jesus was getting ready to feed the crowds, He already had a plan but wanted to disciples to think about what was happening!
Jesus asked the disciples a very earthly question because He could probably sense how they were reacting to the continued building of the crowd.
Jesus wants us to stop looking at the physical earthly ways of achieving stuff and focus on asking Him, the one behind all power, to help those in need around us.
God does not expect us to work miracles by ourselves!