Jesus needs a vacation. Crowds pressing in, so many hungry, hurting people seeking something from him.  He tries to get away from it all, to be by himself to ponder his future, to pray.  He got in a boat in order to get away from it all. But he can't get away. When he finally arrives at some ''lonely place'' it is anything but lonely.  Great, hungry crowds press in upon him. He heals them. It grows late and they have had nothing to eat. And so Jesus commands his disciples to help bi1n feed the hungry multitudes.  From just a few loaves, a couple of fish, they are fed.

That's the episode that immediately precedes today's Gospel Lesson.  After this feeding of the multitudes, Jesus now commands his disciples to get in a boat on the sea and move out. Will he catch up with them later?  How wil…