Why is Jesus Always Leaving?

Last week I was noticing how introverted Jesus seems to be in Mark’s gospel; at every opportunity he seems to be leaving the crowds in order to be alone.  

But then today I noticed something more… Mark’s Jesus is always leaving.

Mark 1: 29 – he leaves the synagogue

1:35 – he leaves the house

3:7 – he withdraws with his disciples to the lake

4:36 – he leaves the crowds behind

5:18 – he leaves the Gerasenes region

6:1 – he leaves another place

6:32 – he leaves with his disciples for a solitary place

6:46 – he leaves the crowds again

7:17 – he leaves the crowds yet again

7:24 – he leaves that place

7:31 – he leaves the region of Tyre

8:13 – he leaves the Pharisees in the region of Dalmanutha

9:30 – he leaves that place
10:1 – he leave another place

10:46 – he leaves Jericho

11:11 – he leaves the temple and Jerusalem
11:12 – he leaves Bethany

11:19 – he leaves Jerusalem again

13:1 – he leaves the temple again

14:35 – he leaves the disciples to go on a little further

16: 6 - 7 – the angels tell the women at the tomb that he’s already left.