In Mark 7, Jesus tries to enter a house without anyone knowing about it. Word gets out, though, and soon a Gentile woman is pleading with him to heal her daughter. Does Jesus hold tightly to his right to alone time? Nope. He heals the woman’s little girl. The rest of that Matthew 14 passage from above reveals that even amid his grief over his cousin’s death, “when Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick.” I don’t know about you, but I would have probably marched the other way, citing burnout and an urgent need for “me time.”
