After this Jesus and his disciples went into the Judean countryside, and he remained there with them and was baptizing.
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.
And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you across the Jordan, to whom you bore witness—look, he is baptizing, and all are going to him.”
So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing.
The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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