"Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival, in case of a riot among the people."

At festival time the governor was in the habit of releasing any one prisoner whom the crowd chose.

The passover and the festival of unleavened bread fell two days later; so the high priests and scribes were trying how to get hold of him by craft and have him put to death.

"Only," they said, "it must not be during the festival; that would mean a popular riot."

Now at festival time he used to release for them some prisoner whom they begged from him.

Every year his parents used to travel to Jerusalem at the passover festival;

and when he was twelve years old they went up as usual to the festival.

When he was in Jerusalem at the festival of the passover, many people believed in his name, as they witnessed the Signs which he performed.

on reaching Galilee, he was welcomed by the Galileans, who had seen all he did at the festival in Jerusalem ??for they too had gone to the festival.

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

(The passover, the Jewish festival, was at hand.)

Now the Jewish festival of booths was near,

Go up to the festival yourselves; I am not going up to this festival, for my time has not arrived yet."

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he went up too, not publicly but as it were privately.

At the festival the Jews were in quest of him, saying, "Where is he?"

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

Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;

[vss 22-29 moved to follow 9:41] Then came the festival of Dedication at Jerusalem; it was winter,

They looked out for Jesus, and as they stood in the temple they said to one another, "What do you think? Do you think he will not come up to the festival?"

Six days before the festival, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus stayed (whom Jesus had raised from the dead).

Next day the great mass of people who had come up for the festival heard that Jesus was entering Jerusalem,

Now there were some Greeks among those who had come up to worship at the festival;

Now before the passover festival Jesus knew the time had come for him to pass from this world to the Father. He had loved his own in this world and he loved them to the end;

some of them thought that as Judas kept the money-box, Jesus told him to buy what they needed for the festival or to give something to the poor.)

So let us celebrate our festival, not with any old leaven, not with vice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of innocence and integrity.