<p>5:15 <i>However, the report went around concerning him all the more; and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities</i>- Mk. 1:45 notes that therefore &quot;Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but stayed in deserted places&quot;. If we put the stress on the word &quot;openly&quot;, we are left imagining Jesus somehow disguising Himself in order to enter the towns. This is the reason why the Lord so sternly charged the healed man not to spread the news (:43); the stampede of people wanting healing meant that the Lord was unable to perform His most important ministry, which was to preach rather than to heal</p>