But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

So He came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-gate there is a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five porticoes,

When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were terror-stricken.

Other boats from Tiberias had landed near the place where the people ate the bread after the Lord had given thanks.

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.

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.

Near Jesus' cross were standing His mother and her sister Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

So Jesus, on seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing near, said to His mother, "There is your son."

So, because it was the Jewish Preparation day and because the tomb was near by, they laid Him there.