“And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.”
Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat — the domestic detail of being unable to eat communicates the intensity of the ministry's demand. The return home (to Capernaum) immediately generates another overwhelming crowd. The inability to eat is not a spiritual boast but a practical report: the needs of the crowd leave no margin for the disciples' ordinary physical needs. This detail also sets up the family's concern in verse 21 — the report of such overwhelming engagement apparently reaches his family as evidence of problematic behavior.
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