How to display recently created pages on page using Laravel?

Lot of articles showing how to display on homepage, but what about on another page such as a page?

This is what I have in my controller file:

public function page($slug)
{
    $page = MenuPage::where('slug',$slug)->firstOrFail();
    return view('pages.page', compact('page'));

}

page.blade.php has my page layout code.

Curious to know what code to put into the controller file and what to put in the view file?

I saw this code in one article for the controller file to display recent posts:

 $recentPosts = Post::take(5)->latest()->get();

but where would I put that code at?

In the backend where I manage the list of pages, this is the code used to show the list of pages:

                        @foreach($pages as $page)

                          <tr>

                            <td></td>
                            <td></td>
                            <td></td>
                          </tr>
                       @endforeach

If I put that code into my page layout, I get an "Undefined variable: pages" error.

via Chebli Mohamed