Albert Barnes Commentary 2 Kings 4:43

"And his servant said, What, should I set this before a hundred men? But he said, Give the people, that they may eat; for thus saith Jehovah, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof." — 2 Kings 4:43 (ASV)

This miracle was a faint foreshadowing of our Lord’s far more marvelous feeding of thousands with even scantier materials. The resemblance is not only in the broad fact but in various minute particulars, such as the distribution through the hands of others, the material being bread, the servant's surprised question, and the evidence of superfluity in the fragments that were left.

Just as Elijah was a type of John the Baptist, so Elisha was in many respects a type of our Blessed Lord. In his peaceful, non-ascetic life, in his mild and gentle character, in his constant circuits, in his many miracles of mercy, and in the healing power that dwelt in his physical body (2 Kings 13:21), he resembled the Messiah more than any other prophet—of whom all prophets were, to some degree, shadows and figures.