Matthew 8:18–22
Jesus commands only the disciples to go across, so that he may not seem hindered by the crowds pressing him from letting the disciples hear the lessons that fit them, and so that God’s mysteries — spoken “in parables to the crowds” (Matthew 8:18–22) — may be revealed to them more genuinely.
Since they left everything in hand and followed him alone for love of learning, he commands them to cross from the temporary to the eternal, from the earthly to the heavenly, from the fleshly to the spiritual.
Greek
Κελεύει δὲ μόνοις τοῖς μαθηταῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀπελθεῖν εἰς τὸ πέραν, ἵνα μὴ δοκῇ ἐμποδίζεσθαι ὑπὸ τῶν θλιβόντων αὐτὸν ὄχλων ἀκούειν τοὺς μαθητὰς τῶν ἁρμοζόντων αὐτοῖς μαθημάτων καὶ γνησιω τέρως μελλόντων αὐτοῖς ἀποκαλύπτεσθαι τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ μυστηρίων, τῶν "ἐν παραβολαῖς τοῖς ὄχλοις" λαλουμένων· ἐπεὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν χερσὶ κατα λείψαντες μόνοι αὐτῷ ἠκολούθησαν ἕνεκεν φιλομαθίας, κελεύει δὲ δια περᾶν ἀπὸ τῶν προσκαίρων ἐπὶ τὰ αἰώνια, ἀπὸ τῶν ἐπιγείων ἐπὶ τὰ ἐπουράνια, ἀπὸ τῶν σαρκικῶν ἐπὶ τὰ πνευματικά.