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Mark 6:31-35 New International Version (NIV)

31. Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

32. So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place.

33. But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them.

34. When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

35. 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.