“Not during the festival,” they said, “so there won’t be rioting among the people.”

At the festival the governor’s custom was to release to the crowd a prisoner they wanted.

After two days it was the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread. The chief priests and the scribes were looking for a treacherous way to arrest and kill Him.

“Not during the festival,” they said, “or there may be rioting among the people.”

At the festival it was Pilate’s custom to release for the people a prisoner they requested.

Every year His parents traveled to Jerusalem for the Passover Festival.

When He was 12 years old, they went up according to the custom of the festival.

The Festival of Unleavened Bread, which is called Passover, was drawing near.

[For according to the festival he had to release someone to them.]

While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many trusted in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near.

The Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,

Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to the festival yet, because My time has not yet fully come.”

After His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly but secretly.

The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He?”

When the festival was already half over, Jesus went up into the temple complex and began to teach.

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink!

Then the Festival of Dedication took place in Jerusalem, and it was winter.

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival, will He?”

The next day, when the large crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

Now some Greeks were among those who went up to worship at the festival.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Since Judas kept the money-bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him, “Buy what we need for the festival,” or that he should give something to the poor.

Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.