New Testament accounts clearly show that Jesus lived neither as a reclusive hermit nor as a maniacal social butterfly. He manifested himself as both a highly visible public and a behind-the-scenes private man. As is often the case, public faithfulness or failure remains directly proportional to the faithfulness or failure in private. Jesus knew that these tendencies went together. Few run a publicly good race to the end in their ministries who have not been faithful in private with their covenant