{"id":779,"date":"2010-02-06T05:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=779"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:35:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T17:35:06","slug":"john-1153-57","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=779","title":{"rendered":"John 11:53-57"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup>53<\/sup> Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">54<\/sup> Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there remained with His disciples.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">55<\/sup> And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">56<\/sup> Then they sought Jesus, and spoke among themselves as they stood in the temple, \u201cWhat do you think\u2014that He will not come to the feast?\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><sup class=\"versenum\">57<\/sup> Now both the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command, that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it, that they might seize Him.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<h3>Ephraim (v. 54) \u2014 also known as Ophrah, near Bethel, east of the Jordan in the hill country.<\/h3>\n<h3>purify (v. 55) \u2014 Exodus 12:14-20; 13:1-9. The Jews went to Jerusalem <em>before<\/em> the Passover to give themselves time to be purified.<\/h3>\n<h3>Jesus knew of the council&#8217;s decision to kill Him. The Holy Spirit has recorded, through John, the council&#8217;s very words.<\/h3>\n<h3>Jesus had been to past Passovers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=564\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">John 2:13<\/span><\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=645\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">6:4<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>53 Then, from that day on, they plotted to put Him to death. 54 Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=779\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study-gospel-of-john"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5723,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/5723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}