John 7:1

And the chief priests and the scribes heard this, and began seeking how to destroy Him; for they were afraid of Him, for the whole crowd was astonished at His teaching.

And this is the witness of John, when the Jews sent to him priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?”

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

“Did not Moses give you the Law? And yet none of you does the Law. Why do you seek to kill Me?”

The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? Is He intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

“I know that you are Abraham’s seed; yet you are seeking to kill Me, because My word has no place in you.

“But now you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. This Abraham did not do.

Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, into a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with the disciples.

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