It was for this reason that Jesus no more appeared in public among the Jews, but He left that part of the country and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.

The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

{Now when the feast was already half over}, Jesus went to the temple [courts] and began to teach.