John 4: 1-3
“Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.”
In this passage, Jesus is told that the Pharisees were aware that he was gaining a following. Jesus then leaves Judea and goes back to Galilee. This passage raises a number of questions about what Jesus was doing and why.