And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and would have kept him, that he should not depart from them.
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Tertullian of Carthage
AD 220
-of prevarication, when he permitted himself to be feared by the demons as the Son of the Creator, that he might drive them out, not indeed by his own power, but by the authority of the Creator. "He departed, and went into a desert place.".
When "stayed "by the crowds, He said "I must preach the kingdom of God to other cities also."