Then he made the disciples embark in the boat and cross before him to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds;
Then he sent the crowd away, got into the boat and went to the territory of Magadan.
Then he left the crowds and went indoors. And his disciples came up to him saying, "Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field."
The men who ate numbered about five thousand, apart from the women and children.
By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.