And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?

Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.

The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Then the Jews put this question to him: What sign of authority have you to give us, seeing that you do these things?

The Jews said, The building of this Temple took forty-six years; and you will put it up in three days!

Now there was among the Pharisees a man named Nicodemus, who was one of the rulers of the Jews.

The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.

Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem.

You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.

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

So the Jews said to the man who had been made well, It is the Sabbath; and it is against the law for you to take up your bed.

The man went away and said to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

And for this reason the Jews were turned against Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.

Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.

Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.

At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?

But no man said anything about him openly for fear of the Jews.

Then the Jews were surprised and said, How has this man got knowledge of books? He has never been to school.

So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks?

So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?

The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

Then the Jews said to him, You are not fifty years old; have you seen Abraham?

Now the Jews had no belief in the statement that he had been blind and was now able to see, till they sent for the father and mother of the man whose eyes had been made open,

They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.

There was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

Then the Jews came round him, saying, how long are you going to keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, say so clearly.

Then the Jews took up stones again to send at him.

The disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to have you stoned, and are you going back there again?

And a number of Jews had come to Martha and Mary to give them comfort about their brother.

Then the Jews who were with her in the house, comforting her, when they saw Mary get up quickly and go out, went after her in the belief that she was going to the place of the dead and would be weeping there.

And when Jesus saw her weeping, and saw the Jews weeping who came with her, his spirit was moved and he was troubled,

So the Jews said, See how dear he was to him!

Then a number of the Jews who had come to Mary and had seen the things which Jesus did had belief in him.

So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

Then a great number of the Jews had news that he was there: and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they might see Lazarus who had been dead and to whom he had given life.

For because of him a great number of the Jews went away and had belief in Jesus.

My dear children, I am only to be with you a little longer. Then you will be looking for me: and as I said to the Jews, so now I say to you, Where I am going you may not come.

It was Caiaphas who had said to the Jews that it was in their interest for one man to be put to death for the people.

Jesus made answer, I said things openly to the world at all times; I have given my teaching in the Synagogues and in the Temple to which all the Jews come; and I have said nothing secretly.

Then Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves and let him be judged by your law. But the Jews said to him, We have no right to put any man to death.

Then Pilate went back into the Praetorium and sent for Jesus and said to him, Are you the King of the Jews?

Jesus said in answer, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom was of this world, my disciples would have made a good fight to keep me out of the hands of the Jews: but my kingdom is not here.

Pilate said to him, True? what is true? Having said this he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I see no wrong in him.

But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

And they kept coming and saying, Long life to the King of the Jews! And they gave him blows with their hands.

And the Jews made answer, We have a law, and by that law it is right for him to be put to death because he said he was the Son of God.

Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.

(It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!

And Pilate put on the cross a statement in writing. The writing was: JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

The writing was seen by a number of the Jews, for the place where Jesus was put to death on the cross was near the town; and the writing was in Hebrew and Latin and Greek.

Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, Do not put, The King of the Jews, but, He said, I am the King of the Jews.

Now it was the day of getting ready for the Passover, and so that the bodies might not be on the cross on the Sabbath (because the day of that Sabbath was a great day), the Jews made a request to Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

After these things, Joseph of Arimathaea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, made a request to Pilate to let him take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate said he might do so. So he went and took away his body.

Then they took the body of Jesus, folding linen about it with the spices, as is the way of the Jews when they put the dead to rest.

So they put Jesus there, because it was the Jews' day of getting ready for the Passover, and the place was near.

At evening on that day, the first day of the week, when, for fear of the Jews, the doors were shut where the disciples were, Jesus came among them and said to them, May peace be with you!