³⁶ Jesus commanded them not to tell anyone.^(A) But the more he did so, the more they kept talking about it.

³¹ But they went out and spread the news about him all over that region.^(A)

¹⁵ Yet the news about him spread all the more,^(A) 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.^(B)