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

Now in accordance with the custom of purification practiced by the Jews, six stone water jars were standing there, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

Then the Jews addressed Him and asked, "What sign can you show us that you have authority to act in this way?"

Then the Jews retorted, "It took forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and you are going to raise it in three days!"

Now there was a man named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees and was 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 on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Him."

You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping; we Jews do know what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the Jews.

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

So the Jews began to say to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the law for you to carry your pallet."

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

This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.

It was on account of this that the Jews tried all the harder to put Him to death, because He not only persisted in breaking the Sabbath, but also kept on saying that God was His Father, and so was making Himself equal to God.

Then the Jews began to grumble about His saying, "I am the bread that came down out of heaven."

But the Jews kept on wrangling with one another and saying, "How can He give us His flesh to eat?"

After this, Jesus went on moving about in Galilee; He would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

Now the Jews at the feast were looking for Him and kept asking, "Where is He?"

And yet, for fear of the Jews, nobody dared to speak in public about Him.

The Jews were dumbfounded and said, "How can this uneducated man know the Scriptures?"

The Jews then said to one another, "Where is He about to go that we shall not find Him? He is not going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and going to teach the Greeks, is He?

Then the Jews began to say, "He is not going to kill Himself, is He? Is that why He said, 'Where I am going you can never come'?"

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

Then the Jews answered Him, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are under the power of a demon?"

Then the Jews said to Him, "Now we know that you are under the power of a demon. Abraham is dead; the prophets too, and yet you say, 'If anyone follows my teaching, he will never experience death.'

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

At this the Jews took up stones to stone Him, but Jesus made His way out of the temple unperceived.

But the Jews did not believe that he had really been blind and that he had come to see again, until they called the parents of the man who saw again,

His parents said this, because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone owned Jesus as the Christ, he should be shut out of the synagogues.

These words again led to a difference of opinion among the Jews.

So the Jews surrounded Him and kept asking Him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so plainly."

The Jews again picked up stones to stone Him.

The Jews retorted, "It is not for a good deed but for blasphemy we are going to stone you; namely, because you, although a mere man, claim to be God."

The disciples said to Him, "Teacher, the Jews just now were trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"

and a goodly number of Jews had come out to see Martha and Mary, to sympathize with them over their brother.

So the Jews who were with her in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw Mary jump up and go out, followed her, because they supposed that she was going to the grave to pour out her grief there.

So when Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, He sighed in sympathy and shook with emotion,

So the Jews said, "See how tenderly He loved him!"

Thus many of the Jews, who came to see Mary and who saw what Jesus had done, believed in Him;

It was for this reason that Jesus no more appeared in public among the Jews, but He left that part of the country and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with His disciples.

A goodly number of the Jews learned that He was at Bethany, and so they came there, not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead.

for on account of him many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.

Dear children, I am to be with you only a little while longer. You will look for me, but, as I told the Jews, so I now tell you, you cannot just now go where I am going.

So the garrison and its commander and the attendants of the Jews arrested Jesus and put handcuffs on Him,

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

Jesus answered him, "I have spoken publicly to the world; I have always taught in the synagogues and in the temple where all the Jews are in the habit of meeting, and I have not spoken anything in secret.

Pilate said to them, "Take Him yourselves, and try Him in accordance with your own law." Then the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to execute the death penalty on anyone."

So Pilate went back into the governor's palace and called Jesus and asked Him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would have been fighting to keep me from being turned over to the Jews. But as a matter of fact, my kingdom does not come from such a source."

Pilate asked Him, "What is truth?" On saying this he went outside again to the Jews, and said to them, "As far as I can see, I can find no ground for a charge against Him.

Now you have a custom to have me set one man free at your Passover time. So do you wish me to set the king of the Jews free?"

and kept marching up to Him and saying, "All hail, you king of the Jews!" each one slapping Him on the face.

And Pilate went outside again and said to the Jews, "Listen! I am going to bring Him out to you, for you to see that I can find no ground for a charge against Him."

The Jews answered him, "We have a law, and in accordance with that law He deserves to die, for claiming to be God's Son."

Because of this Pilate kept on trying to set Him free, but the Jews shouted, "If you set Him free, you are no friend to the emperor. Anyone who claims to be a king is uttering treason against the emperor!"

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

Pilate had a placard written and had it put over the cross: "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

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

So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "You must 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, that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a very important one, the Jews requested Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken down.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked permission of Pilate to remove the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted it. So he went and removed His body.

In the evening of that same first day of the week, even with the doors of the room bolted where the disciples had met for fear of the Jews, Jesus went in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"