-
John the Baptist Denies Being the Messiah
Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.
-
Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
-
Jesus Clears the Temple Courts
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
-
The Jews then responded to him, “What sign can you show us to prove your authority to do all this?”
-
Jesus Teaches Nicodemus
Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council.
-
An argument developed between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew over the matter of ceremonial washing.
-
The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
-
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
-
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
-
The Healing at the Pool
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.
-
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.”
-
The man went away and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.
-
The Authority of the Son
So, because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began to persecute him.
-
The Jewish Passover Festival was near.
-
At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”
-
Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”
-
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.
-
But when the Jewish Festival of Tabernacles was near,
-
Now at the festival the Jewish leaders were watching for Jesus and asking, “Where is he?”
-
The Jews there were amazed and asked, “How did this man get such learning without having been taught?”
-
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?
-
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?”
-
This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’ ?”
-
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.
-
Jesus’ Claims About Himself
The Jews answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you are a Samaritan and demon-possessed?”
