51. Now he didn’t say this of himself, but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Yeshua would die for the nation,
52. and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
53. So from that day forward they took counsel that they might put him to death.
54. Yeshua therefore walked no more openly among the Judeans, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
55. Now the Passover in Judea was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.
56. Then they sought for Yeshua and spoke one with another, as they stood in the temple, “What do you think—that he isn’t coming to the feast at all?”
57. Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.