144:0.3 [[Jesus]] knew that the days of the preliminary [[work]] of teaching and [[preaching]] were about over, that the next move involved the beginning of the full and final [[effort]] of his life on [[earth]], and he did not wish the launching of this undertaking to be in any [[manner]] either trying or [[embarrassing]] to [[John the Baptist|John the Baptist]]. [[Jesus]] had therefore [[decided]] to spend some time in [[retirement]] [[rehearsing]] his [[apostles]] and then to do some [[quiet]] [[work]] in the [[cities]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis] until [[John the Baptist|John]] should be either [[executed]] or released to join them in a [[united]] [[effort]]. | 144:0.3 [[Jesus]] knew that the days of the preliminary [[work]] of teaching and [[preaching]] were about over, that the next move involved the beginning of the full and final [[effort]] of his life on [[earth]], and he did not wish the launching of this undertaking to be in any [[manner]] either trying or [[embarrassing]] to [[John the Baptist|John the Baptist]]. [[Jesus]] had therefore [[decided]] to spend some time in [[retirement]] [[rehearsing]] his [[apostles]] and then to do some [[quiet]] [[work]] in the [[cities]] of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapolis Decapolis] until [[John the Baptist|John]] should be either [[executed]] or released to join them in a [[united]] [[effort]]. |