Jesus accordingly, Ἰησοῦς οὖν, not to precipitate matters, οὐκ ἔτι … αὐτοῦ, “no longer went about openly among the Jews, but departed thence (i.e., from Bethany or Jerusalem and its neighbourhood) to the country near the desert (χώραν in contrast to the city; the particular part being the wilderness of Bethaven, a few miles north-east of Jerusalem) to a city called Ephraim (now Et-Taiyibeh, anciently Ophrah, see Smith's Hist. Geog., 256, 352; ‘perched on a conspicuous eminence and with an extensive view, thirteen miles north of Jerusalem,' Henderson's Palestine, p. 161), and there He spent some time with His disciples”.

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