The Testimony of John the Baptist

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

First Passover—Cleansing the Temple

The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

The Jews then said to Him, “What sign do You show us as your authority for doing these things?”

The Jews then said, “It took forty-six years to build this temple, and yet You will raise it up in three days?”

The New Birth

Now there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews;

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

The Healing at Bethesda

After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

So the Jews were saying to the man who was cured, “It is a Sabbath, and it is not permissible for you to carry your pallet.”

The man went away, and informed the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

For this reason the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He was doing these things on a Sabbath.

Jesus’ Equality with God

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Now the Passover, the feast of the Jews, was near.

Words to the Jews

So then the Jews were complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down out of heaven.”

Then the Jews began to argue with one another, saying, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

Jesus Teaches at the Feast

After these things Jesus was walking in Galilee, for He was unwilling to walk in Judea because the Jews were seeking to kill Him.

Now the feast of the Jews, the Feast of Booths, was near.

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

However, no one was speaking openly about Him, for fear of the Jews.

The Jews then were astonished, saying, “How has this man become learned, not having been educated?”

The Jews then said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He does not intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, does He?

So the Jews were saying, “Surely He will not kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’ ?”

The Jews answered and said to Him, “Do we not rightly say that You are a Samaritan, and You have a demon?”

The Jews said to Him, “Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets as well; and yet You say, ‘If anyone follows My word, he will never taste of death.’

So the Jews said to Him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and You have seen Abraham?”

The Jews then did not believe it about him, that he had been blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight,