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and not only for them, but also to bring together into one body all the scattered people of God.
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From that day on the Jewish authorities made plans to kill Jesus.
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So Jesus did not travel openly in Judea, but left and went to a place near the desert, to a town named Ephraim, where he stayed with the disciples.
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The time for the Passover Festival was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to perform the ritual of purification before the festival.
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They were looking for Jesus, and as they gathered in the Temple, they asked one another, "What do you think? Surely he will not come to the festival, will he?"
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The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was, he must report it, so that they could arrest him.