G. K. Chesterton once mused that Jesus went off by himself in order to laugh. In other words, when he couldn't stand the kind of ridiculous expectations that his friends and followers kept making of him, eventually he went off to laugh just to keep his sanity. Well, maybe. Certainly, everybody seems to want a piece of him in this picture Mark paints. Maybe he went off by himself just to get some peace and quiet for a change. Or, maybe he did laugh. Who could blame him.