WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -“Great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan” (v. 25). In today’s passage, Matthew summarizes Jesus’ public ministry in Galilee, an area encompassing 2, 800 square miles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Read: Matthew 9:36-37 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few.