It's the second day in a row Mark says that Jesus went off to a deserted place. Yesterday, Mark said Jesus woke up and went to a deserted place to pray. Today, Jesus avoided the towns and went off to deserted places. The effect was still the same however. People kept seeking him out.
In part of my essay on the Preferential Option for the Excluded, I argued that yes, maybe Jesus went to these deserted places to pray. But maybe, he also went to these deserted places to look for the deserted people. And maybe Jesus had a special affinity for these deserted people because Jesus somehow knew that at some point, the same people who sought him ought in those deserted places would one day desert him.
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