‘Jesus therefore walked no more openly among the Judaisers, but went from there into the country near to the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there He stayed for a while with the disciples.'
Aware of the situation Jesus withdrew with His disciples to a town probably about fifteen miles outside Jerusalem (identification is not at present certain, but it was on the edge of the desert). It was ‘night' and not the time for action (John 11:10), although that would soon come. He must await His hour. But that has not yet come, for as the Lamb of God He must die at the Passover.