Now this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

Now six stone jars were standing there, according to the manner for purification of the Jews, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Then the Jews said to him, "What sign do you show to us, since you do this?"

The Jews then said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and will you raise it up in three days?"

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Then the woman of Samaria said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

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

So the Jews said to the man who was cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

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

For this reason the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he was doing these things on the Sabbath.

Therefore the Jews sought all 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.

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

The Jews then began to murmur about him, because he said, "I am the bread which came down from heaven."

Then the Jews began to argue among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

After this Jesus went about in Galilee; he would not go about in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Now the Jews' feast of Tabernacles was at hand.

The Jews were looking for him at the feast, and saying, "Where is he?"

However, no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

And the Jews marveled, saying, "How did this man get such learning, having never studied?"

The Jews said to one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we shall not find him? Does he intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks?

Then the Jews said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I go you cannot come'?"

Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples.

The Jews answered him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

The Jews said to him, "Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets; and you say, 'If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

The Jews then said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

The Jews did not believe that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight.

His parents said this because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that he was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

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

So the Jews gathered round him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

The Jews answered him, "For a good work we do not stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, being a man, make yourself God."

The disciples said to him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone you, and are you going there again?"

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them concerning their brother.

The Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.

Then the Jews said, "See how he loved him!"

Many of the Jews therefore, who had come to Mary and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.

Jesus therefore no longer went about openly among the Jews, but went from there to the country near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and there he stayed with his disciples.

Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went from the country up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

Now a great crowd of the Jews learned that he was there, and they came, not only on account of Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus.

Little children, I shall be with you a little while longer. You will seek me; and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you cannot come,' so now I say to you.

Then the detachment of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him.

Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

Jesus answered him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues and in the temple, where all the Jews come together, and I have said nothing in secret.

Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death."

Then Pilate entered the Praetorium again, called Jesus, and said to 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 servants would fight, so that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now my kingship is not from here."

Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again, and told them, "I find no crime in him.

But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

They came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and struck him with their hands.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and according to that law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God."

From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, "If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend. Anyone who makes himself a king sets himself against Caesar."

Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover, about the sixth hour. And he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

Pilate wrote a title and put it on the cross. It read: JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin.

The chief priests of the Jews then said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'"

Therefore, because it was the day of Preparation, that the bodies should not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

After this Josnt of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.

So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in strips of linen with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being shut where the disciples were, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you."