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Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Jews, but departed from there into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim. He stayed there with his disciples.
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Verse 54. Ephrem was a small city or town in the neighbourhood of Bethel. Some suppose it to be the same as Ephron, mentioned in 2 Chronicles 13:19, and 1 Maccabees 5. 2 Maccabees 12:17. Eusebius and S. Jerom say it was situated about 20 miles to the north of Jerusalem. Calmet.—Here he remained with his disciples till the time in which he had resolved to deliver himself up into the hands of his enemies. V.
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