True worship is all about giving honour and glory to God.  We can only do that if our hearts are filled with His truth, awed by His majesty and holiness, being deeply grateful for His mercy and grace (John 4:24).  Worship should express the conviction that He is infinitely more holy than we are, and yet He loves us.  In worship, our horizon should be filled with God.  But, alas, much religious activity is really centred upon a desire to be great (Luke 9:46-48) - often expressed in human activity, following traditions which God has never prescribed.
 

The Pharisees knew the Old Testament, but did not understand what it meant.  They said they were looking for the Messiah, but did not recognise He was Jesus.  They did not grasp that God's law, and the history of Israel, were written to prepare people to submit to Jesus as the King who is greater than David (John 5:39-40).

The disciples had seen, done and learned much with Jesus.  He took them away from Israel to the Phoenician coast on the Mediterranean Sea – near to where Elijah had been sent to bless a Gentile widow (Luke 4:24-27).  Perhaps they thought they were going to have a holiday, but it was another essential training session for the time when Gentiles as well as Jews would put their trust in Jesus (Romans 15:15-16).  However, their tranquillity was interrupted by a pagan woman who pestered them, calling out loudly to ask Jesus to deliver her daughter from demonically inspired mental anguish.

The word 'disciple' means 'learner' or 'pupil'.  Matthew had already recorded the feeding of 5000 families (Matthew 14:13-21), and in the next chapter he writes about 4000 hungry families waiting for Jesus to care for them.  We know that the two events occurred separately and in that order (Matthew 16:9-10).  So why did the disciples ask Jesus where the food might come from?
 
They had already found seven loaves and some fish. So why did they not trust the Lord to act powerfully as He had before (John 6:8-11)?  Had they learned nothing?