It might be prudent to disappear for a while. Anyway, the savior needed to be alone for a while, to grieve. But the crowds, too, were in grief. We don't realize just how deeply John was loved, and just how devastating his death was to the masses of poor, lost peasants in Israel. And so they took off around the Sea of Galilee, looking for a shepherd who would feed them.
People are hungry, lost, lonely, and scared.
And for the last several decades, the churches which are supposed to be the body of Christ have largely failed to feed the masses. That's why so many are wondering around in bars and drugs and golf courses and every other kind of activity on Sunday morning. They tried church, but they were not getting fed. Maybe some empty calories. Oh, we in the churches have been trying.