The time of retirement, a period of six months, covers the period from just before the feeding of the five thousand
to the Feast of Tabernacles and involves one long journey taken in four stages:

1. From Capernaum to the borders of Tyre and Sidon in Phoenicia
2. From the borders of Tyre and Sidon to Decapolis
3. From Decapolis through Dalmanutha and Bethsaida to Caesarea Philippi
4. From Caesarea Philippi to Capernaum