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

Now the Passover of the Jews was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Then the Jews asked Jesus, "What sign are you going to show us, seeing that you do these things?"

The Jews retorted, "This Temple took forty-six years to build, and will you 'raise it in three days'?"

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

"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

"Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."

You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

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

so the Jews kept saying to the man who had been cured. "It is the Sabbath Day; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

The man went to and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well;

and because of this the Jews began to persecute Jesus, because he had done it on the Sabbath.

For this reason the Jews continued to seek the more eagerly to put him to death, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was actually speaking of God as his own Father, thus making himself of God's equal.

Then the Jews began to find fault with Jesus, because he said, "I am the bread which comes down out of heaven," and they kept asking.

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

After these things Jesus continued to travel about in Galilee, for he did not wish to go about in Judea, because the Jews kept trying to kill him.

The Jews meanwhile kept looking for him at feast, and saying, "Where is he?" "I am no longer in the world, but these are in the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep through thine own Name these whom thou hast given me, that they may be one as we are one.

No one, however, was speaking openly about him, for fear of the Jews. "But now I am coming to thee, and I am speaking these things while I am in the world, so that they may have my joy in all its fulness in themselves.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he?

Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"

When he spoke in this way, many of the Jews believed in him.

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

In reply the Jews said to him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan, and you also have a demon?"

"Now we know that you have a demon," exclaimed the Jews. Abraham died, and so did the prophets; and yet you say, 'If any man obeys my teaching he shall never taste death.'

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

The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue.

So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him.

The Jews were again divided over these words.

Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

The Jews again took stones with which to stone him. Jesus said to them.

"We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

so a number of the Jews had gone to Martha and Mary to sympathize with them concerning their brother.

Then the Jews who were in the house trying to console her, when they saw that Mary rose quickly and went out, followed her, because they thought she was going to the tomb to weep there.

Then when Jesus saw her sobbing, and the Jews likewise who accompanied her, sobbing, he shuddered with indignation in his spirit, and was deeply agitated.

"See how he loved him," said the Jews. But some of them said,

Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary, and had seen what he did, believed on him;

Jesus therefore no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went away from there into the region near the desert to a town called Ephraim,

When the great mass of the Jews learned that Jesus was there, they came not alone because of Jesus, but to see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.

because it was on his account that many of the Jews were leaving them, and beginning to believe on Jesus.

"My little children, I am only to be with you a little longer. You will seek me; just as I said to the Jews, 'Where I go you cannot come,' so now I say to you.

and led him to Annas first. (For Annas was the Father-in-law of Caiaphas, who was the high priest that year??14 the Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their advantage that one man should die for the people.)

Jesus answered him. "I have spoken to all the world openly. I always taught in a synagogue and in the temple, places where all the Jews are wont to assemble, and in secret I have spoken nothing.

The Jews answered him, "We are not allowed to put anyone to death" (that the word of Jesus might be fulfilled in which he predicted the kind of death he was to die).

So Pilate went into the Praetorium again, and summoned Jesus. "Are you the King of the Jews?" he said.

Jesus answered him. "My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants have fought hard that I should not be handed the Jews; but in reality my kingdom is not of such origins."

Pilate said to him, "What is truth?" As he said this, he went outside again to the Jews and said to them.

"I find no crime in this man. Now it is a custom of yours that I release one prisoner to you at the time of the Passover feast. Do you wish me to release to you the King of the Jews?"

saying, "Hail! King of the Jews!" They also gave him blow after blow with their hands.

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and by that law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be God's Son,"

After that Pilate began to seek to release him, but the Jews shouted out. "If you release this man you are no friend of the Emperor. Any man who makes himself out to be king is a rebel against the Emperor."

And it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, about six o'clock in the morning. Then he said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"

And Pilate moreover wrote an inscription and placed it above the cross. What he wrote was, "JESUS, THE NAZARENE, KING OF THE JEWS"

This inscription was read by many of the Jews, because the place where they crucified Jesus was near the city, and the inscription was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

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

It was Preparation Day, so in order to prevent the bodies' hanging on the cross during the Sabbath (for the Sabbath was a great day) the Jews begged Pilate to have the legs broken, and the bodies taken away.

After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but in secret because of fear of the Jews, asked Pilate for permission to take the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him leave. So he came and took the body.

On the evening of that same day, the first day of the week, although the doors of the room where the disciples gathered had been locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came, and there he stood among them, saying. "Peace to you!"