Send the people away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat.”
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.”
“You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”
Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”
By this time it was late in the day, so his disciples came to him. “This is a remote place,” they said, “and it’s already very late.
But he answered, “You give them something to eat.” They said to him, “That would take more than half a year’s wages! Are we to go and spend that much on bread and give it to them to eat?”