Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.
After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.
For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, show yourself to the world.”
And Abijah pursued Jeroboam and took cities from him, Bethel with its villages and Jeshanah with its villages and Ephron with its villages.
Jesus answered him, “I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all Jews come together. I have said nothing in secret.
He went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.
Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.
But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private.
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
After two full years Absalom had sheepshearers at Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim, and Absalom invited all the king's sons.
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