²⁰ Then he went ^(A)home, and the crowd gathered again, ^(B)so that they could not even eat.

³¹ And he said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.” For many were coming and going, and ^(A)they had no leisure even to eat.

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, ^(A)“Rabbi, eat.” ³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³ So the disciples said to one another, ^(B)“Has anyone brought him something to eat?” ³⁴ Jesus said to them, ^(C)“My food is ^(D)to do the will of him who sent me and ^(E)to accomplish his work.

Jesus Ministers to a Great Multitude

¹⁷ And ^(A)he came down with them and stood on a level place, with ^(B)a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of ^(C)Tyre and Sidon,

²⁸ And when he had ^(A)entered the house, his disciples asked him privately, “Why could we not cast it out?”

¹⁷ And when he had entered ^(A)the house and left the people, ^(B)his disciples asked him about the parable.

⁹ And he told his disciples to ^(A)have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they ^(B)crush him,

A Great Crowd Follows Jesus

^7 (A)Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and ^(B)a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea