⁵⁴ 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.

¹ After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

¹⁹ And Abijah went after Jeroboam and took some of his towns, Beth-el with its small towns and Jeshanah with its small towns and Ephron with its small towns.

⁴ Because no man does things secretly if he has a desire that men may have knowledge of him. If you do these things, let yourself be seen by all men.

²³ Now after two full years, Absalom had men cutting the wool of his sheep in Baal-hazor, which is near Ephraim: and he sent for all the king's sons to come to his feast.

¹ Now when it was clear to the Lord that word had come to the ears of the Pharisees that Jesus was making more disciples than John and was giving them baptism

² (Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),

³ He went out of Judaea into Galilee again.

¹⁰ But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he went up, not publicly, but in secret.

¹³ But no man said anything about him openly for fear of the Jews.

⁴⁰ And he went again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John first gave baptism; and he was there for a time.

²⁰ Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.