http://www.ccel.org/ccel/mcgarvey/gospels.vi.xiv.html
Jesus is touring around Galilee. He stops to heal a leper. He tells the leper very strongly not to tell anyone, but the leper does anyway. Consequently the crowds are so attracted to Jesus so that he doesn’t enter into the cities and instead he withdraws to the desert.
So, there’s all kinds of questions that we could ask at this point: is Jesus thawrted in his plans? I think it’s okay if he was. Perhaps that’s the result of man’s free will: that the leper freely chose to disobey Jesus’ command to remain silent, and thus the plan of God took a different path. Or maybe not, because we don’t see the big picture.