Now there were six stone water jars there, for the ceremonial purification practiced by the Jews, each large enough to hold twenty or thirty gallons.

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

You worship something you know nothing about; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

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

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

The Jews complained of him for saying, "I am the bread that has come out of heaven,"

This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

Now the Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking where he was,

But no one spoke of him in public, for fear of the Jews.

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

So the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, and is that why he says, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

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

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

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

At that, the Jews picked up stones to throw at him, but he disappeared and made his way out of the Temple.

But the Jews would not believe that he had been blind and had become able to see until they summoned the parents of the man who had been given his sight,

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

These words caused a fresh division of opinion among the Jews.

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so frankly!"

The Jews again picked up stones to stone him with.

The Jews answered, "We are not stoning you for doing anything good, but for your impious talk, and because you, a mere man, make yourself out to be God."

The disciples said to him, "Master, the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"

and a number of Jews had come out to see Mary and Martha, to condole with them about their brother.

The Jews who were sitting with her in the house, condoling with her, when they saw Mary spring up and go out, supposed that she was going to weep at the tomb, and followed her.

When Jesus saw her weep and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, repressing a groan, and yet showing great agitation,

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

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

In consequence of this, Jesus did not appear in public among the Jews any longer, but he left that neighborhood and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

for because of him many of the Jews were leaving them and becoming believers in Jesus.

My children, I am to be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but, as I said to the Jews, where I am going you cannot follow,

So the garrison and the colonel and the attendants of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

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

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

Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and try him by your law." The Jews said to him, "We have no authority to put anyone to death."

So Pilate went back into the governor's house and called Jesus and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."

Pilate said to him, "What is truth!" With these words he went outside again to the Jews, and said to them, "I can find nothing to charge him with.

But it is your custom to have me release one man for you at Passover time. Do you want me therefore to release the king of the Jews for you?"

saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" each one giving him a blow.

And Pilate went outside again and said to the Jews, "See! I will bring him out to you, to show you that I can find nothing to charge him with."

The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by our law he deserves death, for declaring himself to be a son of God."

This made Pilate try to find a way to let him go, but the Jews shouted, "If you let him go, you are no friend of the emperor's! Anyone who calls himself a king utters treason against the emperor!"

It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and it was about noon. And Pilate said to the Jews, "There is your king!"

Pilate had written a placard and had it put on the cross; it read "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

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

So the Jewish high priests said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The king of the Jews,' but write 'He said, I am the king of the Jews.' "

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, in order that the bodies might not be left on the crosses over the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was an especially important one, the Jews asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.

After this, Joseph, of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one, because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him remove Jesus' body, and Pilate gave him permission. So Joseph went and took the body down.

When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"