And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent from Jerusalem priests and Levites, that they should question him, Who art thou?

Now there stood there six large stone jars, for the customary purifying ablution of the Jews, containing two or three baths each.

And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

The Jews then addressed him, and said to him, What miracle shewest thou, seeing thou actest thus?

Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up again: then said the Jews,

Then said the Jews, This temple has been forty-six years in building, and canst thou rear it up in three days?

NOW there was a man of the Pharisees, whose name was Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:

After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the Jews' land, and there he haunted with them and baptised,

Then a dispute arose between the disciples of John and the Jews with regard to purification.

The Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, How canst thou, a Jew, ask of me, who am a Samaritan woman, to drink? for Jews avoid all intercourse with Samaritans.

Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Him."

You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping; we Jews do know what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the Jews.

AFTER these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

The Jews, therefore, said to him that was cured, It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry the bed.

The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well;

and on this account the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he had done these things on the sabbath.

Then, for this reason, the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the sabbath but also said, that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.

And the passover was nigh, the feast of the Jews.

The Jews therefore murmured concerning him, because he said, I am the bread which came down out of heaven.

The Jews therefore strove one with another, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?

And after these things Jesus walked in Galilee: for he would not walk in Judaea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.

The Jews therefore sought him at the feast, and said, Where is he?

Yet no man spake openly of him for fear of the Jews.

The Jews therefore marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?

placed after 5:47] The Jews were amazed, saying, "How can this uneducated fellow manage to read?"

The Jews therefore said among themselves, Whither will this man go that we shall not find him? will he go unto the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

The Jews therefore said, Will he kill himself, that he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come?

When he spoke in this way, many of the Jews believed in him.

Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, then are ye truly my disciples;

The Jews answered and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?

The Jews said unto him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of death.

The Jews therefore said unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight,

These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him.

I have other sheep [also] which are not [presently] in this corral; I must lead them, too. They will hear my voice and become one flock [i.e., with the others], having one shepherd. [Note: This probably refers to believing Gentiles becoming God's people, along with the Jews].

Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,

During the winter, when the Festival of Dedication was being held in Jerusalem [Note: This was the Jewish festival commemorating the rededication of the Temple in BC after its pagan desecration by Greeks. It is still observed today by Jews as "Hanukkah."],

the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, 'Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.'

I and the Father are one. Then the Jews again took up stones to stone Him.

Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;

The Jews answered him, saying, 'For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'

Upon this the Jews again sought to arrest him; but he escaped their hands.

the disciples say to him, 'Rabbi, now were the Jews seeking to stone thee, and again thou dost go thither!'

and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- 'She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, he was greatly troubled in spirit and deeply moved.

So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"

Many of the Jews who had come with Mary and who had observed what Jesus did believed in him.

As a result, Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Instead, he went from there to a town called Ephraim in the region near the wilderness. There he remained with his disciples.

And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

When the large crowd of Jews realized that he was there, they came not only because of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

since he was the reason why so many of the Jews were leaving to believe in Jesus.

And I, if and when I am lifted up from the earth [on the cross], will draw all people to Myself [Gentiles, as well as Jews].”

Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say it now.

The band, therefore, and the captain, and the officers of the Jews, took hold on Jesus, and bound him,

and led him to Annas first. (For Annas was the Father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their advantage that one man should die for the people.)

Caiaphas was the person who had advised the Jews that it was better to have one man die for the people.

Jesus answered him, "I have spoken publicly to the world. I have always taught in the synagogue or in the Temple, where all Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.

Then Jesus was led from Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters early in the morning. The Jews did not go into the headquarters, to avoid becoming unclean and unable to eat the Passover meal.

Pilate, therefore, said to them, 'Take ye him -- ye -- and according to your law judge him;' the Jews, therefore, said to him, 'It is not lawful to us to put any one to death;'

The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die).

So Pilate went back into the governor's headquarters, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Jesus answered, 'My kingdom is not of this world; if my kingdom were of this world, my officers had struggled that I might not be delivered up to Jews; but now my kingdom is not from hence.'

Pilate saith to him, 'What is truth?' and this having said, again he went forth unto the Jews, and saith to them, 'I do find no fault in him;

But you have a custom that I release one person for you at Passover. Do you want me to release for you the king of the Jews?"

And the soldiers having platted a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and put on him a purple robe, And said, Hail, king of the Jews.

They kept coming up to him and saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" Then they began to slap him on the face.

Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him."

the Jews answered him, 'We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, for he made himself Son of God.'

From this time was Pilate seeking to release him, and the Jews were crying out, saying, 'If this one thou mayest release, thou art not a friend of Caesar; every one making himself a king, doth speak against Caesar.'

and it was the preparation of the passover, and as it were the sixth hour, and he saith to the Jews, 'Lo, your king!'

Pilate wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, "Jesus from Nazareth, the King of the Jews."

Many Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. It was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

Then the Jewish high priests told Pilate, "Don't write, "The King of the Jews,' but that this fellow said, "I am the King of the Jews.'"

The Jews, therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, since it was the preparation, (for that sabbath day was a great one,) asked of Pilate that their legs may be broken, and they taken away.

And after these things did Joseph of Arimathea -- being a disciple of Jesus, but concealed, through the fear of the Jews -- ask of Pilate, that he may take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave leave; he came, therefore, and took away the body of Jesus,

They took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in linen cloths along with spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

there, therefore, because of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was nigh, they laid Jesus.

It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, 'Peace to you;'