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

So Jesus said to them, “For a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light, so that darkness will not overtake you; he who walks in the darkness does not know where he goes.

You know of Jesus of Nazareth, how God anointed Him with the Holy Spirit and with power,

and how He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.

For

But they did not receive Him, because He was traveling toward Jerusalem.

“Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem; and the Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and scribes, and they will condemn Him to death,

For those who live in Jerusalem, and their rulers, recognizing neither Him nor the utterances of the prophets which are read every Sabbath, fulfilled these by condemning Him.

General references

The vine-growers took his slaves and beat one, and killed another, and stoned a third.

Herod also added this to them all: he locked John up in prison.