Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am king of the Jews.’”

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.

After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

(Now the Jewish feast of the Passover was near.)

Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles was near.

However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?”

Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.

The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, “Look how much he loved him!”

for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

So then the Jewish leaders responded, “What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?”

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?”