The Jews therefore answered, and said to him, What sign do thou show us since thou do these things?

since because of him many of the Jews were going and were believing in Jesus.

For some thought, since Judas had the purse, that Jesus said to him, Buy what things we have need of for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.

The Jews therefore, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath, since it was Preparation (for it was the high day of that Sabbath), they besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and they might be remove