^{53 Ref} And from that day they took thought together how to put him to death.

^{54 Ref} So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

^{55 Ref} Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

^{56 Ref} They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast?

^{57 Ref} Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone had knowledge where he was, he was to give them word, so that they might take him.