⁵⁴ Jesus, therefore, was no more freely walking among the Jews, but went away thence to the region nigh the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he tarried with his disciples.

¹ And Jesus was walking after these things in Galilee, for he did not wish to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him,

¹⁹ And Abijah pursueth after Jeroboam, and captureth from him cities, Beth-El and its small towns, and Jeshanah and its small towns, and Ephraim and its small towns.

⁴ for no one in secret doth anything, and himself seeketh to be in public; if thou dost these things -- manifest thyself to the world;'

²³ And it cometh to pass, after two years of days, that Absalom hath shearers in Baal-Hazor, which `is' with Ephraim, and Absalom calleth for all the sons of the king.

¹ When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

² (though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

³ he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

¹⁰ And when his brethren went up, then also he himself went up to the feast, not manifestly, but as in secret;

¹³ no one, however, was speaking freely about him, through fear of the Jews.

⁴⁰ and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,

²⁰ Jesus answered him, `I spake freely to the world, I did always teach in a synagogue, and in the temple, where the Jews do always come together; and in secret I spake nothing;