Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews.

The Savior once more retired from Jerusalem to avoid the blow that was ready to be struck and retired for. short time

into. city called Ephraim.

Its location is not surely known, but it is supposed to be an Ophrah named in Joshua 18:23, called Ephraim in 2 Chronicles 13:19, and now. village called et Taiyibeh. It is about sixteen miles northeast of Jerusalem on the borders of. wild wilderness region. To this place the Lord must have retired immediately after the resurrection of Lazarus, and here he remained until six days before the Passover. His "disciples," meaning more especially the apostles, were with him in this retirement, and he was, no doubt, actively engaged in training them for their great work. This was his last retirement from Jerusalem and he went from Ephraim to attend his last Passover and to die.

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