saying, “Where is He who has been born King of the Jews? For we saw His star in the east and have come to worship Him.”

Now Jesus stood before the governor. “Are You the King of the Jews?” the governor asked Him.

Jesus answered, “You have said it.”

They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on His head, and placed a reed in His right hand. And they knelt down before Him and mocked Him: “Hail, King of the Jews!”

Above His head they put up the charge against Him in writing:

THIS IS JESUS

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

(For the Pharisees, in fact all the Jews, will not eat unless they wash their hands ritually, keeping the tradition of the elders.

So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

He answered him, “You have said it.”

So Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the King of the Jews for you?”

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the One you call the King of the Jews?”

And they began to salute Him, “Hail, King of the Jews!”

The inscription of the charge written against Him was:

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

So Pilate asked Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

He answered him, “You have said it.”

and said, “If You are the King of the Jews, save Yourself!”

An inscription was above Him:

THIS IS

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?”

Therefore the Jews said, “This sanctuary took 46 years to build, and will You raise it up in three days?”

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

Therefore, the Jews began persecuting Jesus because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

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

Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.

Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How does He know the Scriptures, since He hasn’t been trained?”

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He?

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’?”

So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you really are My disciples.

The Jews responded to Him, “Aren’t we right in saying that You’re a Samaritan and have a demon?”

Then the Jews said, “Now we know You have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps My word, he will never taste death—ever!’

The Jews replied, “You aren’t 50 years old yet, and You’ve seen Abraham?”

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

Again a division took place among the Jews because of these words.

Then the Jews surrounded Him and asked, “How long are You going to keep us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”

Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone Him.

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

“Rabbi,” the disciples told Him, “just now the Jews tried to stone You, and You’re going there again?”

Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.

When Jesus saw her crying, and the Jews who had come with her crying, He was angry in His spirit and deeply moved.

So the Jews said, “See how He loved him!”

Therefore, many of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what He did believed in Him.

Therefore Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews but departed from there to the countryside near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim. And He stayed there with the disciples.

Then a large crowd of the Jews learned He was there. They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus the one He had raised from the dead.

because he was the reason many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

“Children, I am with you a little while longer. You will look for Me, and just as I told the Jews, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ so now I tell you.

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

“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered him. “I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple complex, where all the Jews congregate, and I haven’t spoken anything in secret.

So Pilate told them, “Take Him yourselves and judge Him according to your law.”

“It’s not legal for us to put anyone to death,” the Jews declared.

Then Pilate went back into the headquarters, summoned Jesus, and said to Him, “Are You the King of the Jews?”

“My kingdom is not of this world,” said Jesus. “If My kingdom were of this world, My servants would fight, so that I wouldn’t be handed over to the Jews. As it is, My kingdom does not have its origin here.”

“What is truth?” said Pilate.

After he had said this, he went out to the Jews again and told them, “I find no grounds for charging Him.

You have a custom that I release one prisoner to you at the Passover. So, do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

And they repeatedly came up to Him and said, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and were slapping His face.

“We have a law,” the Jews replied to him, “and according to that law He must die, because He made Himself the Son of God.”

From that moment Pilate made every effort to release Him. But the Jews shouted, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar’s friend. Anyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar!”

It was the preparation day for the Passover, and it was about six in the morning. Then he told the Jews, “Here is your king!”

Pilate also had a sign lettered and put on the cross. The inscription was:

JESUS THE NAZARENE

THE KING OF THE JEWS.

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

So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Don’t write, ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that He said, ‘I am the King of the Jews.’”

Since it was the preparation day, the Jews did not want the bodies to remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special day). They requested that Pilate have the men’s legs broken and that their bodies be taken away.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus—but secretly because of his fear of the Jews—asked Pilate that he might remove Jesus’ body. Pilate gave him permission, so he came and took His body away.

Then they took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the aromatic spices, according to the burial custom of the Jews.

In the evening of that first day of the week, the disciples were gathered together with the doors locked because of their fear of the Jews. Then Jesus came, stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!”

There were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven.

Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

In those days, as the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint by the Hellenistic Jews against the Hebraic Jews that their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution.

But Saul grew more capable and kept confounding the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that this One is the Messiah.

After many days had passed, the Jews conspired to kill him,

He conversed and debated with the Hellenistic Jews, but they attempted to kill him.

Those who had been scattered as a result of the persecution that started because of Stephen made their way as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus, and Antioch, speaking the message to no one except Jews.

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to arrest Peter too, during the days of Unleavened Bread.

After the synagogue had been dismissed, many of the Jews and devout proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who were speaking with them and persuading them to continue in the grace of God.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to oppose what Paul was saying by insulting him.

But the Jews incited the prominent women, who worshiped God, and the leading men of the city. They stirred up persecution against Paul and Barnabas and expelled them from their district.

The same thing happened in Iconium; they entered the Jewish synagogue and spoke in such a way that a great number of both Jews and Greeks believed.

But the Jews who refused to believe stirred up and poisoned the minds of the Gentiles against the brothers.

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

When an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and Jews, with their rulers, to assault and stone them,

Then some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and when they had won over the crowds and stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, thinking he was dead.

Paul wanted Timothy to go with him, so he took him and circumcised him because of the Jews who were in those places, since they all knew that his father was a Greek.

Bringing them before the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are seriously disturbing our city. They are Jews

But the Jews became jealous, and they brought together some scoundrels from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. Attacking Jason’s house, they searched for them to bring them out to the public assembly.

The Jews stirred up the crowd and the city officials who heard these things.

As soon as it was night, the brothers sent Paul and Silas off to Berea. On arrival, they went into the synagogue of the Jews.

But when the Jews from Thessalonica found out that God’s message had been proclaimed by Paul at Berea, they came there too, agitating and disturbing the crowds.

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and with those who worshiped God and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there.

where he found a Jewish man named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them,

He reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath and tried to persuade both Jews and Greeks.

When Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with preaching the message and solemnly testified to the Jews that Jesus is the Messiah.

While Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews made a united attack against Paul and brought him to the judge’s bench.

As Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, “If it were a matter of a crime or of moral evil, it would be reasonable for me to put up with you Jews.

When they reached Ephesus he left them there, but he himself entered the synagogue and engaged in discussion with the Jews.

For he vigorously refuted the Jews in public, demonstrating through the Scriptures that Jesus is the Messiah.