Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.
Here is, I. The cleansing of a leper, Luk 5:12-14. This narrative we had both in Matthew and Mark. It is here said to have been in a certain city (Luk 5:12); it was in Capernaum, but the evangelist would not name it, perhaps because it was a reflection upon the government of the city that a leper was suffered to be in it.
Commenting on Luke 5:12-16
And he withdrew himself into the wilderness,.... Into a desert place, that he might have rest from the fatigues of preaching and healing diseases; and being alone, and free from company, might have an opportunity for private prayer to God, for so it lows: and prayed; this is to be understood of Christ, as man: as God, he is the object of prayer, and petitions...
Verse 16. No entry from BARNES for this verse. (n) "And he withdrew"