³⁶ Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”

²³ Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

³¹ “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”

²¹ When his family^[a] heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”^(A)

²² Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”