Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger;
And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves.
When he went ashore he saw a great crowd, and he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And he began to teach them many things.