After this, Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He did not want to travel in Judea, because the Jews there were trying to kill Him.
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- WEB After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.
- KJV After these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Jewry, because the Jews sought to kill him.
- NKJV After these things Jesus walked in Galilee; for He did not want to walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill Him.
- NASB After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.
- NLT After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He wanted to stay out of Judea, where the Jewish leaders were plotting his death.
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Jesus stays in Galilee, avoiding Judea because the authorities there sought to kill Him. His movements reflect His awareness that His hour had not yet come.
Overview
Hostility toward Jesus has grown to the point of murderous intent. He withdraws not from fear but in submission to the Father's timing for His death. John shows Jesus sovereignly governing His ministry, refusing to die before the appointed hour at the Passover to come.
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- John 5:16–18Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.
- John 4:3He left Judea and returned to Galilee.
- Matt 21:38But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and take his inheritance.’
- John 7:19Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”
- Matt 10:23When they persecute you in one town, flee to the next. Truly I tell you, you will not reach all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.
- Acts 10:38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, and how Jesus went around doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, because God was with Him.
- Luke 13:31–33At that very hour, some Pharisees came to Jesus and told Him, “Leave this place and get away, because Herod wants to kill You.”
- John 10:39–40At this, they tried again to seize Him, but He escaped their grasp.
- John 1:19And this was John’s testimony when the Jews of Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”
- John 8:40But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham never did such a thing.
- John 8:37I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you.
- John 11:53–54So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
- John 4:54This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.
- John 7:25Then some of the people of Jerusalem began to say, “Isn’t this the man they are trying to kill?
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