“And when it was day, he departed and went into a desert place: and the people sought him, and came unto him, and stayed him, that he should not depart from them.”
At daybreak Jesus went out to a solitary place. The people were looking for him and when they came to where he was, they tried to keep him from leaving them — the pre-dawn solitude and prayer (implied by the solitary place, cf. Mark 1:35) is Jesus' retreat from the success of the previous day's ministry. The people's attempt to keep him from leaving communicates the crowd's possessive response to Jesus — they want to retain the healer in their location.
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