8 Bible Verses about Retirement

After he had sent the crowds away, he went up into the mountain alone, to pray. When night came he was there alone.

On leaving that place Jesus went along the shore of the Sea of Galilee; and after climbing a hill, took his seat there.

Six days later Jesus took with him Peter and James and his brother John, and led them up a high mountain, by themselves apart.

When Jesus was about to go up to Jerusalem, he took the Twelve aside by themselves, and as they went he said to them.

Then he said to them, "Come apart, yourselves, to a quiet spot, and rest a while." For there were many coming and going, and they could not get time even to eat.

After he rose and left that place, he went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. Here he went into a house and wished no one to know it but he could not be hid.

On their return the apostles told him what they had done. and he took them and withdrew in private to a town called Bethsaida.

But he himself withdrew from them about a stone's throw, kneeling down he prayed repeatedly, saying.