Bible verse
Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
John 11:55 · BSB
The verses around it, from John 11.
51 Caiaphas did not say this on his own. Instead, as high priest that year, he was prophesying that Jesus would die for the nation,
52 and not only for the nation, but also for the scattered children of God, to gather them together into one.
53 So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.
54 As a result, Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but He withdrew to a town called Ephraim in an area near the wilderness. And He stayed there with the disciples.
55 Now the Jewish Passover was near, and many people went up from the country to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.
56 They kept looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple courts, “What do you think? Will He come to the feast at all?”
57 But the chief priests and Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where He was must report it, so that they could arrest Him.
KJV
And the Jews’ passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.
ASV
Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves.
ERV
Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves.
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