The Pharisees heard that Jesus was winning and baptizing more disciples than John.

So when Jesus heard what was being said, he left Judea and went back to Galilee;

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee; he did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jewish authorities there were wanting to kill him.

Jesus then went back again across the Jordan River to the place where John had been baptizing, and he stayed there.

Jesus answered, "I have always spoken publicly to everyone; all my teaching was done in the synagogues and in the Temple, where all the people come together. I have never said anything in secret.

People don't hide what they are doing if they want to be well known. Since you are doing these things, let the whole world know about you!"

After his brothers had gone to the festival, Jesus also went; however, he did not go openly, but secretly.

But no one talked about him openly, because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities.

Two years later Absalom was having his sheep sheared at Baal Hazor, near the town of Ephraim, and he invited all the king's sons to be there.

Abijah pursued Jeroboam's army and occupied some of his cities: Bethel, Jeshanah, and Ephron, and the villages near each of these cities.