When the Jews sent some Priests and Levites to John from Jerusalem, to ask--"Who are you?", his statement was this:

Then, as the Jewish Passover was near, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem, during the Passover Festival, many came to trust in him, when they saw the signs of his mission that he was giving.

"It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshiped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem."

"Believe me," replied Jesus, "a time is coming when it will be neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem that you will worship the Father.

When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.

Sometime after this there was a Jewish Festival; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

There is in Jerusalem, near the Sheep-gate, a Bath with five colonnades round it. It is called in Hebrew 'Bethesda.'

At this some of the people of Jerusalem exclaimed: "Is not this the man that they are seeking to put to death?

Soon after this the Festival of the Re-dedication was held at Jerusalem.

Bethany being only about two miles from Jerusalem,

But the Jewish Festival of the Passover was near; and many people had gone up from the country to Jerusalem, for their 'purification,' before the Festival began.

On the following day great numbers of people who had come to the Festival, hearing that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, took palm-branches,