Send them away so that they can go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something for themselves to eat.”

Many spread their cloaks on the road and others spread branches they had cut in the fields.

The one in the field must not turn back to get his cloak.

After this he appeared in a different form to two of them while they were on their way to the country.

Now the herdsmen ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened.

The soldiers forced a passerby to carry his cross, Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country (he was the father of Alexander and Rufus).

Jesus said, “I tell you the truth, there is no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for my sake and for the sake of the gospel

who will not receive in this age a hundred times as much – homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, fields, all with persecutions – and in the age to come, eternal life.

And wherever he would go – into villages, towns, or countryside – they would place the sick in the marketplaces, and would ask him if they could just touch the edge of his cloak, and all who touched it were healed.