MATTHEW 14:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.”
Now when Jesus heard this, he withdrew from there in a boat to a desolate place by himself. But when the crowds heard it, they followed him on foot from the towns. Jesus' response to the news of John's death is withdrawal — the same strategic withdrawal as in Matthew 12:15. The desolate place communicates the need for solitude in the face of the forerunner's death. The crowd that followed on foot communicates the impossibility of the withdrawal: the people's need will not allow for private grief.
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