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and so the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath; the law forbids you to carry your mat.”
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The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
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The Authority of the Son
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
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The Jewish Passover Festival was near.
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At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
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Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
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Jesus Goes to the Festival of Tabernacles
After this, Jesus went around in Galilee. He did not want to go about in Judea because the Jewish leaders there were looking for a way to kill him.
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But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,
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Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, “Where is he?”
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The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having been taught?”
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The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we cannot find him? Will he go where our people live scattered among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks?
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Unbelief of the Jewish Leaders
Finally the temple guards went back to the chief priests and the Pharisees, who asked them, “Why didn’t you bring him in?”
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This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’ ?”
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Dispute Over Whose Children Jesus’ Opponents Are
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.
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Jesus’ Claims About Himself
The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”
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His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
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The Jews who heard these words were again divided.
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The Jews who were there gathered around him, saying, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”
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Again his Jewish opponents picked up stones to stone him,
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“But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?”
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and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them in the loss of their brother.
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When the Jews who had been with Mary in the house, comforting her, noticed how quickly she got up and went out, they followed her, supposing she was going to the tomb to mourn there.
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When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
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Then the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
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The Plot to Kill Jesus
Therefore many of the Jews who had come to visit Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in him.
