 In Luke 5, we read this set up to the narrative of an instance in which a man was lowered by friends into a house where Jesus was ministering, a man whom Jesus healed. The scriptures say this, beginning in verse 15. However, the report went around concerning him, meaning Jesus, all the more and great multitudes came together to hear and to be healed by him of their infirmities. So he himself often withdrew into the wilderness and prayed.