And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem so that they could ask him, "Who are you?"

Now six stone water jars were set there, in accordance with the ceremonial cleansing of the Jews, each holding two or three measures.

And the Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

So the Jews answered and said to him, "What sign do you show to us, because you are doing these [things]?"

Then the Jews said, "This temple has been under construction forty-six years, and will you raise it up in three days?"

Now there was a man of the Pharisees {whose name was} Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How do you, being a Jew, ask from me [water] to drink, [since I] am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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

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

So the Jews were saying to the one who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not permitted for you to pick up the mat!"

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

And on account of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he was doing these [things] on the Sabbath.

So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, [thus] making himself equal with God.

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

Now the Jews began to grumble about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven,"

So the Jews began to quarrel {among themselves}, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

And after these [things] Jesus was going about in Galilee. For he did not want to go about in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill him.

Now the feast of the Jews--the [feast of] Tabernacles--was near.

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

However, no one was speaking openly about him for fear of the Jews.

Then the Jews were astonished, saying, "How does this man {possess knowledge}, [because he] has not been taught?"

So the Jews said to one another, "Where [is] this one going to go, that we will not find him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, [is he]?

Then the Jews began to say, "Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'"

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

The Jews answered and said to him, "Do we not correctly say that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?"

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

So the Jews said to him, "{You are} not yet fifty years [old], and have you seen Abraham?"

So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight.

(His parents said these [things] because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him [to be] Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

Again there was a division among the Jews because of these words.

So the Jews surrounded him and began to say to him, "{How long will you keep us in suspense}? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly!"

Then the Jews picked up stones again so that they could stone him.

The Jews answered him, "We are not going to stone you concerning a good deed, but concerning blasphemy, and because you, [although you] are a man, make yourself [to be] God!"

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

So many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary in order to console them concerning their brother.)

So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, [when they] saw Mary--that she stood up quickly and went out--followed her, [because they] thought that she was going to the tomb in order to weep there.

Then Jesus, when he saw her weeping and the Jews who came with her weeping, was deeply moved in spirit and was troubled within himself.

So the Jews were saying, "See how he loved him!"

Then many of the Jews who had come with Mary and saw [the things] which he did believed in him.

So Jesus was no longer walking openly among the Jews, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the [surrounding] country before the Passover, so that they could purify themselves.

Now a large crowd of Jews found out that he was there, and they came, not only because of Jesus, but so that they could see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead.

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

Children, yet a little [time] I am with you. You will seek me and just as I said to the Jews, "Where I am going you cannot come," now I say also to you.

Then the cohort and the military tribune and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and tied him up,

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was better [that] one man die for the people.)

Jesus replied to him, "I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple [courts] where all the Jews assemble, and I have said nothing in secret.

So Pilate said to them, "You take him and judge him according to your law!" The Jews said to him, "It is not permitted for us to kill anyone,"

Then Pilate entered again into the governor's residence and summoned Jesus and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would be fighting so that I would not be handed over to the Jews. But now my kingdom is not from here."

Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" And [when he] had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, "I find no basis for an accusation against him.

But it is your custom that I release for you one [prisoner] at the Passover. So do you want [me] to release for you the king of the Jews?"

and were coming up to him and saying, "Hail, king of the Jews!" and were giving him slaps in the face.

The Jews replied to him, "We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God!"

From this [point on] Pilate was seeking to release him, but the Jews shouted, saying, "If you release this man, you are not a friend of Caesar! Everyone who makes himself out to be a king opposes Caesar!"

(Now it was the day of preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, "Behold your king!"

And Pilate also wrote a notice and placed [it] on the cross, and it was written: "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

So many of the Jews read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city. And it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, [and] in Greek.

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

Then the Jews, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an important day), asked Pilate that their legs could be broken and they could be taken away.

And after these [things], Joseph [who was] from Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus (but a secret one for fear of the Jews), asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate allowed [it], so he came and took away his body.

So they took the body of Jesus and wrapped it in [strips of] linen cloth with the fragrant spices, as is the Jews' custom to prepare for burial.

So there, on account of the day of preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was close by, they buried Jesus.

Now [when it] was evening on that day--the first [day] of the week--and the doors had been shut where the disciples were because of fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, "Peace to you."