Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.<n id="1" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">We are Jews by birth<n id="1" /> and not Gentile sinners,<n id="2" />

Then the chief priests of the Jews<n id="1" /> said to Pilate, &#8220;Do not write, &#8216;The king of the Jews,&#8217; but rather, &#8216;This man said, I am king of the Jews.&#8217;&#8221;

To the Jews I became like a Jew to gain the Jews. To those under the law I became like one under the law (though I myself am not under the law)<n id="1" /> to gain those under the law.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The same thing happened in Iconium<n id="1" /> when Paul and Barnabas<n id="2" /> went into the Jewish synagogue<n id="3" /> and spoke in such a way that a large group<n id="4" /> of both Jews and Greeks believed.

They began to salute him: &#8220;Hail, king of the Jews!&#8221;<n id="1" />

The inscription<n id="1" /> of the charge against him read, &#8220;The king of the Jews.&#8221;

and saying, &#8220;If<n id="1" /> you are the king of the Jews, save yourself!&#8221;

There was also an inscription<n id="1" /> over him, &#8220;This is the king of the Jews.&#8221;p>

Now the Jewish feast of Passover<n id="1" /> was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.<n id="2" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now a certain man, a Pharisee<n id="1" /> named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Now a dispute came about between some of John&#8217;s disciples and a certain Jew<n id="1" /> concerning ceremonial washing.<n id="2" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">After this<n id="1" /> there was a Jewish feast,<n id="2" /> and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Now because Jesus was doing these things<n id="1" /> on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders<n id="2" /> began persecuting<n id="3" /> him.

(Now the Jewish feast of the Passover<n id="1" /> was near.)<n id="2" />

Now the Jewish feast of Tabernacles<n id="1" /> was near.<n id="2" />

However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.<n id="1" />p>

Then the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> were astonished<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people<n id="1" /> because of these words.

<p class="bodytext">The Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> picked up rocks again to stone him to death.