Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat.
And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat.
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon,
And when he had entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”
And when he had entered the house and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.
And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him,
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea
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