This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?”

Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

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

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He?”

Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.

Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures, since He hasn’t been trained?”

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

The Jews responded to Him, “Aren’t we right in saying that You’re a Samaritan and have a demon?”

Then the Jews said, “Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death—ever!’

The Jews replied, “You aren’t 50 years old yet, and You’ve seen Abraham?”

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.

Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

“Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”

Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry in His spirit and deeply moved.

So the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what He did believed in Him.

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

Then a large crowd of the Jews learned He was there. They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus the one He had raised from the dead.

because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

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

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple complex, where all the Jews congregate, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret.

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”

“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

Then Pilate went back into the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

“My kingdom is not of this world,” said Jesus. “If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Jews. As it is, My kingdom does not have its origin here.”

“What is truth?” said Pilate.

After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no grounds for charging Him.

You have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

And they repeatedly came up to Him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and were slapping His face.

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about six in the morning. Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!”

Pilate also had a sign lettered and put on the cross. The inscription was:

JESUS THE NAZARENE

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

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

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly because of his fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took His body away.

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

In the evening of that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because of their fear of the Jews. Then Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!”