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

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

(Now the Jewish feast of the Passover was near.)

But some boats from Tiberias came to shore near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, and many people went up to Jerusalem from the rural areas before the Passover to cleanse themselves ritually.

Thus many of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.