His little soul had been caught by Him he had wished to catch.
Things did not go so well with our fugitive in other places.

An evil slander about the Baptist was spread abroad--that he was a glutton and a wine-bibber! Jesus heard of it, and said: "John the Baptist fasted.
They said of him that he was possessed by a demon.

It is neither eating nor fasting that they object to in the prophets; it is the truth which they speak." Then they came to villages and farms where they wished to rest, but none would give them shelter.

This angered the Master.

The dust on the ground was not worthy to remain sticking to the feet of those who came to bring the Kingdom of God.