Everyone is looking for you!" (Mark1:37)

Mark 1: 36 Simon and his companions went to look for him (Jesus), 37 and when they found him, they exclaimed: "Everyone is looking for you!"

The times I have a similar experience of such an exclamation is when the other party needs something from me and I am considered lagging in fulfilling the needs/ requests. And usually there is a tinge of frustration and reprimand from the other party.

In the gospel, it may be natural for this expectation. As just the day before many were healed, message was preached. Needs were met... but there were still more needs, greater needs, needed to be met..., so the Lord's work was not done, he was still needed, demanded.


38 Jesus replied, "Let us go somewhere else—to the nearby villages—so I can preach there also. That is why I have come."

To Jesus, it was not the case. He considered it finished. His accountability is towards the One who sent him, not to the ones he was sent for. But it is difficult to distinct between the One and the ones at times.