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and not for the nation only, but in order to unite into one body all the far-scattered children of God.
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So from that day forward they planned and schemed in order to put Him to death.
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Therefore Jesus no longer went about openly among the Jews, but He left that neighbourhood and went into the district near the Desert, to a town called Ephraim, and remained there with the disciples.
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The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
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They therefore looked out for Jesus, and asked one another as they stood in the Temple, "What do you think? --will he come to the Festival at all?"
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Now the High Priests and the Pharisees had issued orders that if any one knew where He was, he should give information, so that they might arrest Him.