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John 11:52-54
New Catholic Bible
John 11:52-54
New Catholic Bible
52 and not for the nation alone, but to gather into one the dispersed children of God. 53 And so from that day on, they plotted to kill him.[a] 54 As a result, Jesus no longer walked about openly among the Jews. He withdrew to a town called Ephraim[b] in the region bordering the desert, and he remained there with the disciples.
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- John 11:53 Jesus is placed under a death sentence, which the careful reader will suspect to be illegal because of Nicodemus’ question to the authorities in Jn 7:51: “Does our Law allow us to pass judgment on someone without first giving him a hearing to ascertain what he is doing?”
- John 11:54 Ephraim: on the edge of the wilderness of Judea, 16 miles north of Jerusalem.
