and asked, "Where is the newly born king of the Jews? For we have seen his star rise and we have come to do homage to him."

Now Jesus stood before the governor, and the governor asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" Jesus said, "Yes."

and made a wreath of thorns and put it on his head, and they put a stick in his hand, and knelt down before him in mockery, saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

They put above his head the charge against him, which read, "This is Jesus, the king of the Jews."

So they took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been current among the Jews ever since.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews observe the rules handed down from their ancestors, and will not eat until they have washed their hands in a particular way,

Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered, "Yes."

Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to set the king of the Jews free for you?"

And Pilate again said to them, "Then what shall I do with the man you call the king of the Jews?"

and they began to acclaim him, "Long live the king of the Jews!"

And the notice of the charge against him read, "The king of the Jews."

And Pilate asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?" He answered, "Yes."

saying, "If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!"

For there was a notice above his head, "This is the king of the Jews!"

Now there were six stone water jars there, for the ceremonial purification practiced by the Jews, each large enough to hold twenty or thirty gallons.

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

Among the Pharisees there was a man named Nicodemus, a leader among the Jews.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

You worship something you know nothing about; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the Law for you to carry your mat."

The man went and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

The Jews complained of him for saying, "I am the bread that has come out of heaven,"

This led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

Now the Jews were looking for him at the festival and asking where he was,

But no one spoke of him in public, for fear of the Jews.

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

So the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, and is that why he says, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed in him, "If you abide by what I teach, you are really disciples of mine,

The Jews answered, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed?"

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

The Jews said to him, "You are not fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"

At that, the Jews picked up stones to throw at him, but he disappeared and made his way out of the Temple.

But the Jews would not believe that he had been blind and had become able to see until they summoned the parents of the man who had been given his sight,

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

These words caused a fresh division of opinion among the Jews.

So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How much longer are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are really the Christ, tell us so frankly!"

The Jews again picked up stones to stone him with.

The Jews answered, "We are not stoning you for doing anything good, but for your impious talk, and because you, a mere man, make yourself out to be God."

The disciples said to him, "Master, the Jews have just been trying to stone you, and are you going back there again?"

and a number of Jews had come out to see Mary and Martha, to condole with them about their brother.

The Jews who were sitting with her in the house, condoling with her, when they saw Mary spring up and go out, supposed that she was going to weep at the tomb, and followed her.

When Jesus saw her weep and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, repressing a groan, and yet showing great agitation,

So the Jews said, "See how much he loved him!"

So it came about that many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary and saw what Jesus did, came to believe in him,

In consequence of this, Jesus did not appear in public among the Jews any longer, but he left that neighborhood and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

A great many of the Jews found out that he was there, and they came to Bethany not only to see Jesus but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

for because of him many of the Jews were leaving them and becoming believers in Jesus.

My children, I am to be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, but, as I said to the Jews, where I am going you cannot follow,

So the garrison and the colonel and the attendants of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jews that it was for their interest that one man should die for the people.

Jesus answered, "I have spoken openly to the world. I have always taught in synagogues or in the Temple where all the Jews meet together, and I have said nothing in secret.

Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves, and try him by your law." The Jews said to him, "We have no authority to put anyone to death."

So Pilate went back into the governor's house and called Jesus and said to him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

Jesus answered, "My kingdom is not a kingdom of this world. If my kingdom were a kingdom of this world, my men would have fought to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom has no such origin."

Pilate said to him, "What is truth!" With these words he went outside again to the Jews, and said to them, "I can find nothing to charge him with.

But it is your custom to have me release one man for you at Passover time. Do you want me therefore to release the king of the Jews for you?"

saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" each one giving him a blow.

And Pilate went outside again and said to the Jews, "See! I will bring him out to you, to show you that I can find nothing to charge him with."

The Jews answered, "We have a law, and by our law he deserves death, for declaring himself to be a son of God."

This made Pilate try to find a way to let him go, but the Jews shouted, "If you let him go, you are no friend of the emperor's! Anyone who calls himself a king utters treason against the emperor!"

It was the day of Preparation for the Passover, and it was about noon. And Pilate said to the Jews, "There is your king!"

Pilate had written a placard and had it put on the cross; it read "Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews."

Many of the Jews read this placard, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

So the Jewish high priests said to Pilate, "Do not write 'The king of the Jews,' but write 'He said, I am the king of the Jews.' "

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, in order that the bodies might not be left on the crosses over the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was an especially important one, the Jews asked Pilate to have the men's legs broken and the bodies removed.

After this, Joseph, of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one, because of his fear of the Jews, asked Pilate to let him remove Jesus' body, and Pilate gave him permission. So Joseph went and took the body down.

When it was evening on that first day after the Sabbath, and the doors of the house where the disciples met were locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

Now there were devout Jews from every part of the world living in Jerusalem.

of Phrygia, and Pamphylia, of Egypt and the district of Africa about Cyrene, visitors from Rome, Jews and proselytes,

In those days, as the number of the disciples was increasing, complaints were made by the Greek-speaking Jews against the native Jews that their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution of food.

But Saul grew more and more powerful, and bewildered the Jews who lived in Damascus by his proofs that Jesus was the Christ.

After some time had passed, the Jews made a plot to kill him,

and spoke boldly for the Lord's cause, talking and debating with the Greek-speaking Jews. But they tried to kill him.

We are witnesses of everything that he did in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. Yet they put him upon a cross and killed him.

charging him with having visited and eaten with men who were not Jews.

The fugitives from the persecution that had broken out over Stephen went all the way to Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, but they told the message to none but Jews.

and when he saw that this gratified the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too, at the time of the festival of Unleavened Bread.

and after the congregation had broken up, many of the Jews and the devout converts to Judaism went away with Paul and Barnabas, and they talked with them, and urged them to rely on the favor of God.

But when the Jews saw the crowd, they were very jealous, and they contradicted what Paul said and abused him.

But the Jews stirred up the well-to-do religious women and the leading men of the town, and they started a persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and drove them out of their district.

At Iconium in the same way, they went to the Jewish synagogue and spoke with such power that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

But the Jews who refused their message stirred up the heathen and poisoned their minds against the brothers.

But the people of the town were divided, some siding with the Jews and some with the apostles.

And when there was a movement on the part of both the heathen and the Jews with the authorities to insult and stone them,

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the people over, and they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the town, thinking that he was dead.

Paul wished to take this man on with him, and so on account of the Jews in that district he had him circumcised, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

and brought them before the chief magistrates. "These men," they said, "are Jews, and they are making a great disturbance in our town.

After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they reached Thessalonica, where the Jews had a synagogue.

This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.

The Jews there were more high-minded than those at Thessalonica, and received the message with great eagerness and studied the Scriptures every day, to find out whether it was true.

But when the Jews at Thessalonica found out that God's message had been delivered at Berea by Paul, they came there too, to excite and stir up the populace.

He had discussions at the synagogue with the Jews and those who worshiped with them, and every day in the public square with any whom he happened to find.

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome. Paul went to see them,