Then the Judeans replied, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”

The disciples replied, “Rabbi, the Jewish leaders were just now trying to stone you to death! Are you going there again?”

so many of the Jewish people of the region had come to Martha and Mary to console them over the loss of their brother.)

Then the squad of soldiers with their commanding officer and the officers of the Jewish leaders arrested Jesus and tied him up.

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised the Jewish leaders that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)

They came up to him again and again and said, “Hail, king of the Jews!” And they struck him repeatedly in the face.

And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation and the tomb was nearby, they placed Jesus’ body there.

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

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

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.