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Simon finds him and in effect says, “Master, let’s get this show on the road, for everybody wants a piece of the action.” But Jesus knew that they were after him for the wrong reasons, for the glory of the miraculous, not for the message of the Kingdom of God. He responds, as Phillips translated, “Then we will go somewhere else, to the neighboring towns, so that I may tell my message there too . . . for that is why I have come.”

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