Send the crowds away so they can go to the nearby farms and villages and buy something to eat.”
But Jesus gave her no reply, not even a word. Then his disciples urged him to send her away. “Tell her to go away,” they said. “She is bothering us with all her begging.”
But Peter took him aside and began to reprimand him for saying such things. “Heaven forbid, Lord,” he said. “This will never happen to you!”
When his family heard what was happening, they tried to take him away. “He’s out of his mind,” they said.
His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’”
Late in the afternoon his disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late.
But Jesus said, “You feed them.” “With what?” they asked. “We’d have to work for months to earn enough money to buy food for all these people!”