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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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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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“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.
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Meanwhile a large crowd of Jews found out that Jesus was there and came, not only because of him but also to see Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.
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for on account of him many of the Jews were going over to Jesus and believing in him.
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Belief and Unbelief Among the Jews
Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him.
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“My children, I will be with you only a little longer. You will look for me, and just as I told the Jews, so I tell you now: Where I am going, you cannot come.
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“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus replied. “I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
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Pilate then went back inside the palace, summoned Jesus and asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews?”
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“What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
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But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”
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and went up to him again and again, saying, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they slapped him in the face.
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Once more Pilate came out and said to the Jews gathered there, “Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him.”
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It was the day of Preparation of the Passover; it was about noon. “Here is your king,” Pilate said to the Jews.
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Pilate had a notice prepared and fastened to the cross. It read: jesus of nazareth, the king of the jews.
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Many of the Jews read this sign, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the sign was written in Aramaic, Latin and Greek.
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The chief priests of the Jews protested to Pilate, “Do not write ‘The King of the Jews,’ but that this man claimed to be king of the Jews.”
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Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven.
