Gospel Parallels: The Return of the Apostles

Mark 6.30–31 || Matthew 14.12–13 || Luke 9.10

From Aland’s Synopsis of the Four Gospels, Parallel #145

Mark

Then the apostles gathered around Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught. He said to them, “Come with me privately to an isolated place and rest a while” (for many were coming and going, and there was no time to eat). (Mark 6.30–31 NET)

Matthew

Then John’s disciples came and took the body and buried it and went and told Jesus.

Now when Jesus heard this he went away from there privately in a boat to an isolated place. But when the crowd heard about it, they followed him on foot from the towns. (Matthew 14.12–13 NET)

Luke

When the apostles returned, they told Jesus everything they had done. Then he took them with him and they withdrew privately to a town called Bethsaida. (Luke 9.10 NET)

John

No parallel passages.