surrounded by yet another crowd of people? what do you think they expected would happen? do you think they expected jesus to send the crowd away? after all, it was jesus who brought them there to have a time of rest away from all the crowds! he knew they needed some rest. but jesus also knew something else.
he knew that this crowd of people needed him! they had a deeper need than even they were aware of. verse 34 is our memory verse. it tells us that as jesus looked at this crowd of people, he was not angry that they had ruined his vacation plans. he was not frustrated 