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

Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the Jews' manner of purifying, containing, each, two or three firkins.

And the passover of the Jews was near; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

The Jews, therefore, answered and said to Him, "What sign dost Thou show to us, seeing that Thou doest these things?

The Jews, therefore, said, "In forty-six years this temple was built, and wilt Thou raise it up in three days?"

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

The Samaritan woman, therefore, says to Him, "How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans).

Ye worship ye know not what; we know what we worship, because salvation is from the Jews.

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

The Jews, therefore, said to him who had been cured, "It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your bed."

The man went away, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who made him well.

And, on this account, the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on the sabbath.

For this cause, therefore, the Jews were seeking the more to kill Him, because He not only broke the sabbath, but also called God His Father, making Himself equal with God.

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

The Jews, therefore, were murmuring concerning Him, because He said, "I am the Bread that came down out of Heaven."

The Jews, therefore, were wrangling with one another, saying, "How can This Man give us His flesh to eat?"

And after these things Jesus was walking in Galilee: for He was not willing to walk in Judea, because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

Now the feast of the Jews, the feast of tabernacles, was at hand.

The Jews, therefore, were seeking Him at the feast, and said, "Where is He?"

No one, however, was speaking openly concerning Him, for fear of the Jews.

The Jews, therefore, were marveling, saying, "How knoweth This Man letters, having never learned!"

The Jews, therefore, said among themselves, "Where is This Man about to go, that we shall not find Him? Is He about to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?

The Jews, therefore, said, "Will He kill Himself?" because He said, "Whither I go, ye cannot come."

Jesus, therefore, said to those Jews who had believed on Him, "If ye abide in My word, ye are truly My disciples;

The Jews answered and said to Him, "Say we not well that Thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?"

The Jews said to Him, "Now we know that Thou hast a demon! Abraham and the prophets died; and Thou sayest, 'If any one keeps My word, he shall never taste of death!'

The Jews, therefore, said to Him, "Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast Thou seen Abraham?"

The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him, that he was blind, and received sight, until they called the parents of him who received sight,

These things said his parents, because they were fearing the Jews; for the Jews had agreed already, that, if any one should confess Him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

There arose again a division among the Jews because of these words.

The Jews, therefore, came round about Him, and said to Him, "How long dost Thou hold us in suspense? If Thou art the Christ, tell us plainly."

The Jews took up stones again to stone Him.

The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we stone Thee not, but for blasphemy, and because, Thou, being a Man, makest Thyself God!"

The disciples say to Him, "Rabbi, the Jews were just now seeking to stone Thee; and art Thou going there again?"

And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

The Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, seeing Mary, that she rose up quickly and went out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb, to weep there.

Jesus, therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Jews weeping who came with her, groaned in the spirit, and troubled Himself;

The Jews, therefore, said, "Behold, how He was loving him!

Many, therefore, of the Jews who came to Mary and beheld what He did, believed on Him;

Jesus, therefore, was no longer openly walking about among the Jews; but He went away thence into the country near to the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there He abode with the disciples.

Now the passover of the Jews was near; and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

The great multitude, therefore, of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not because of Jesus only, but that they might see Lazarus, whom He raised from the dead.

because, on his account, many of the Jews were going away, and were believing on Jesus.

Little children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye will seek Me; and, as I said to the Jews, 'Whither I go ye cannot come;' so now I say to you.

So the band, and the chief captain, and the officers of the Jews, seized Jesus, and bound Him,

And it was Caiaphas who counseled the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world; I always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews assemble together; and in secret I spake nothing.

Pilate, therefore, said to them, "Take Him yourselves, and judge Him according to your law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to kill anyone:"

Pilate, therefore, entered again into the Praetorium, and called Jesus, and said to Him, "Art Thou the King of the Jews?"

Jesus answered, "My Kingdom is not of this world. If My Kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews; but now My kingdom is not from hence."

Pilate says to Him, "What is truth?" And, having said this, he went out again to the Jews, and says to them, "I find no crime in Him.

But ye have a custom, that I should release to you one at the passover. Do ye wish, therefore, that I release to you the King of the Jews?"

and they kept coming to Him, and saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" And they were giving Him blows with a rod.

The Jews, therefore, answered him, "We have a law, and according to the law He ought to die, because He made Himself God's Son."

In consequence of this, Pilate was seeking to release Him; but the Jews cried out, saying, "If you release this Man, you are not Caesar's friend; every one who makes himself a king speaks against Caesar."

And it was the Preparation of the passover: it was about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, "Behold, your King!"

And Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, "JESUS THE NAZARENE, THE KING OF THE JEWS."

This title, therefore, many of the Jews read; because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, in Greek.

The high priests of the Jews, therefore, said to Pilate, "Write not, 'The King of the Jews,' but that He said, I am King of the Jews."

The Jews, therefore, (since it was the Preparation), that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, (for the day of that sabbath was great), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they be taken away.

And after these things Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly through fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate gave him permission. He came, therefore, and took away His body.

So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of Jews is to bury.

There, therefore, on account of the Preparation of the Jews (because the tomb was near), they laid Jesus.

When, therefore, it was evening, on that day, the first day of sabbaths; and, when, through fear of the Jews, the doors were shut, where the disciples were; Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, "Peace be to you!"