Are We Willing to Send People Away Hungry?

The way Matthew is telling the story, does he want us to see Jesus as bringing about a new excess? He's really just got in mind the Epic of Gilgamesh. And yet Jesus is beyond Moses, right? Because Moses goes to the Lord and the Lord sends down manna from heaven. In this case, Jesus himself performs the miracle. So he's a new Moses, but he is to sort of riff on what he says in chapter 12, something greater than Moses.