Send the people away, so that they may go to the farms and villages around and buy themselves something to eat."
But Jesus did not answer her a word; and his disciples came up and begged him to send her away. "She keeps calling out after us," they said.
But Peter took Jesus aside, and began to rebuke him. "Master," he said, "please God that shall never be your fate!"
When his relations heard of it, they went to take charge of him, for they said that he was out of his mind.
"You see the people pressing round you," exclaimed his disciples, "and yet you say 'Who touched me?'"
When it grew late, his disciples came up to him, and said: "This is a lonely spot, and it is already late.
But Jesus answered: "It is for you to give them something to eat." "Are we to go and buy twenty pounds' worth of bread," they asked, "to give them to eat?"