In context
51He did not say this on his own. As the high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus was going to die for the nation — 52and not for the nation only, but also to gather into one the scattered children of God. 53From that day on, they were resolved to kill him. 54So Jesus no longer moved about openly among the Jews. He withdrew to the region near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples. 55The Passover of the Jews was near, and many people went up from the countryside to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.
