¹⁴ Then Jesus ordered him, “Don’t tell anyone,^(A) but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded^(B) for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

¹⁵ Yet the news about him spread all the more,^(C) so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. ¹⁶ But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.^(D)