he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed Rather, But He Himself was retiring in the wilderness and praying. St Mark (Mark 1:45) gives us the clearest view of the fact by telling us that the leper blazoned abroad his cure in every direction, "so that He was no longer able to enter openly into a city, but was without, in desert spots; and they began to come to Him from all directions." We here see that this retirement was a sort of "Levitical quarantine," which however the multitudes disregarded as soon as they discovered where He was.

and prayed St Luke's is eminently the Gospel of Prayer and Thanksgiving. See on Luke 3:21.

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