Exodus 16:2-15
 
The people spoke bitterly against Moses and Aaron.
“Oh, that we were back in Egypt,” they moaned, “and that the Lord had killed us there!  For there we had plenty to eat.  But now you have brought us into this wilderness to kill us with starvation.”
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I’m going to rain down food from heaven for them. Everyone can go out each day and gather as much food as he needs.  And I will test them in this, to see whether they will follow my instructions or not.  Tell them to gather twice as much as usual on the sixth day of each week.”
Then Moses and Aaron called a meeting of all the people of Israel and told them, “This evening you will realize that it was the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt.  In the morning you will see more of his glory; for he has heard your complaints against him (for you aren’t really complaining against us—who are we?).  The Lord will give you meat to eat in the evening, and bread in the morning.  Come now before Jehovah and hear his reply to your complaints.”
So Aaron called them together and suddenly, out toward the wilderness, from within the guiding cloud, there appeared the awesome glory of Jehovah.
And Jehovah said to Moses, “I have heard their complaints.  Tell them, ‘In the evening you will have meat and in the morning you will be stuffed with bread, and you shall know that I am Jehovah your God.’”
That evening vast numbers of quail arrived and covered the camp, and in the morning the desert all around the camp was wet with dew; and when the dew disappeared later in the morning it left thin white flakes that covered the ground like frost.  When the people of Israel saw it they asked each other, “What is it?”
And Moses told them, “It is the food Jehovah has given you.


Jonah 3:10-4:11
God saw that the people of Nineveh had put a stop to their evil ways and he abandoned his plan to destroy them and didn’t carry it through.  This change of plans made Jonah very angry.  He complained to the Lord about it: “This is exactly what I thought you’d do, Lord, when I was there in my own country and you first told me to come here.  That’s why I ran away to Tarshish.  For I knew you were a gracious God, merciful, slow to get angry, and full of kindness; I knew how easily you could cancel your plans for destroying these people.
“Please kill me, Lord; I’d rather be dead than alive when nothing that I told them happens.”
Then the Lord said, “Is it right to be angry about this?”
So Jonah went out and sat sulking on the east side of the city, and he made a leafy shelter to shade him as he waited there to see if anything would happen to the city.  And when the leaves of the shelter withered in the heat, the Lord arranged for a vine to grow up quickly and spread its broad leaves over Jonah’s head to shade him.  This made him comfortable and very grateful.
But God also prepared a worm!  The next morning the worm ate through the stem of the plant, so that it withered away and died.  Then when the sun was hot, God ordered a scorching east wind to blow on Jonah, and the sun beat down upon his head until he grew faint and wished to die.  For he said, “Death is better than this!”
And God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry because the plant died?”
“Yes,” Jonah said, “it is; it is right for me to be angry enough to die!”
Then the Lord said, “You feel sorry for yourself when your shelter is destroyed, though you did no work to put it there, and it is, at best, short-lived, so why shouldn’t I feel sorry for a great city like Nineveh with its 120,000 people  living in utter spiritual darkness?”
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Matthew 20:1-16
Here is another illustration of the Kingdom of Heaven. “The owner of an estate went out early one morning to hire workers for his harvest field.  He agreed to pay them a denarius a day – that’s equivalent to $20 in modern times.  
A couple of hours later he was passing a hiring hall and saw some men standing around waiting for jobs, so he sent them also into his fields, telling them he would pay them whatever was right at the end of the day. At noon and again around three o’clock in the afternoon he did the same thing.
“At five o’clock that evening he was in town again and saw some more men standing around and asked them, ‘Why haven’t you been working today?’
“‘Because no one hired us,’ they replied.  “‘Then go on out and join the others in my fields,’ he told them.
“That evening he told the paymaster to call the men in and pay them, beginning with the last men first. When the men hired at five o’clock were paid, each received $20.  So when the men hired earlier came to get theirs, they assumed they would receive much more.  But they, too, were paid $20.
“They protested, ‘Those fellows worked only one hour, and yet you’ve paid them just as much as those of us who worked all day in the scorching heat.’
“‘Friend,’ he answered one of them, ‘I did you no wrong!  Didn’t you agree to work all day for $20? Take it and go.  It is my desire to pay all the same; is it against the law to give away my money if I want to?  Should you be angry because I am kind?’  And so it is that the last shall be first, and the first, last.”

Matthew 14:13-21

Now when Jesus heard of the execution of John the Baptizer, he withdrew in a boat to a deserted place by himself, but when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the nearby towns. 

When he went ashore, he saw a great crowd already gathered, and he had compassion for them and cured their sick.  When it was evening, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is now late; send the crowds away so that they may go into the villages and buy food for themselves.”

But Jesus said to them, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.”  They replied, “We have nothing here but five loaves and two fish.”  And he said, “Bring them here to me.” 

Then he told the crowds to sit down on the grass and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and blessed and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.  They all ate and were filled, and they gathered up what was left over of the broken pieces, which was twelve baskets full.  Those who ate were about five thousand men, besides the women and children who were with them.
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Matthew 15:21-28
Jesus left the country around Gennesaret and walked the fifty miles to Tyre and Sidon, where a Canaanite woman who was living there came to him, pleading, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, King David’s Son, for my daughter has a demon within her, and it torments her constantly.”  But Jesus gave her no reply—not even a word.  

Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell her to get going,” they said, “for she is bothering us with all her begging.”  Then he said to the woman, “I was sent to help the Jews—the lost sheep of Israel—not the Gentiles.”

But she came and knelt before him,  pleading again, “Sir, help me!”  He finally replied, saying, “It isn’t good to take the children’s food and throw it to the dogs.”  

“Yes, yes, it is!” she replied, “for even the dogs are permitted to eat the crumbs that fall beneath the table.” 

“Woman,” Jesus told her, “your faith is great.  Let it be done as you wish.”   And her daughter was healed right then.