'Distance' in the Bible

As he was going into a village, ten lepers met him. They stood at a distance

"But the tax collector stood at a distance and would not even look up to heaven. Instead, he continued to beat his chest and said, "O God, be merciful to me, the sinner that I am!'

Then they arrested him, led him away, and brought him to the high priest's house. But Peter was following at a distance.

But all his acquaintances, including the women who had followed him from Galilee, were standing at a distance watching these things.