and he said to them, `Come ye yourselves apart to a desert place, and rest a little,' for those coming and those going were many, and not even to eat had they opportunity,
And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, `Rabbi, eat;' and he said to them, `I have food to eat that ye have not known.' The disciples then said one to another, `Did any one bring him anything to eat?' Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;
And Jesus withdrew with his disciples unto the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea,
And he said to his disciples that a little boat may wait on him, because of the multitude, that they may not press upon him,
And when he entered into a house from the multitude, his disciples were questioning him about the simile,
And he having come into the house, his disciples were questioning him by himself -- `Why were we not able to cast it forth?'
and having come down with them, he stood upon a level spot, and a crowd of his disciples, and a great multitude of the people from all Judea, and Jerusalem, and the maritime Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their sicknesses,
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Chapter 3
In this chapter, we have,
Mar 3:1-12
Here, as before, we have our Lord Jesus busy at work in the synagogue first, and then by the sea side; to teach us that his presence should not be confined either to the one or to the other, but, wherever any are gathered together in his name, whether in the synagogue or any where else, there is he in the midst of them. In every place where he records his name, he will meet his people, and bless them; it is his will that men pray every where. Now here we have some account of what he did.
Mar 3:13-21
In these verses, we have,
Mar 3:22-30
Mar 3:31-35
Here is,