<p class="bodytext">Then the Judeans<n id="1" /> replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;You are not yet fifty years old!<n id="3" /> Have<n id="4" /> you seen Abraham?&#8221;

The disciples replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Rabbi, the Jewish leaders<n id="2" /> were just now trying<n id="3" /> to stone you to death! Are<n id="4" /> you going there again?&#8221;

so many of the Jewish people of the region<n id="1" /> had come to Martha and Mary to console them<n id="2" /> over the loss of their brother.)<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then the squad of soldiers<n id="1" /> with their commanding officer<n id="2" /> and the officers of the Jewish leaders<n id="3" /> arrested<n id="4" /> Jesus and tied him up.<n id="5" />

(Now it was Caiaphas who had advised<n id="1" /> the Jewish leaders<n id="2" /> that it was to their advantage that one man die for the people.)<n id="3" />p>

They<n id="1" /> came up to him again and again<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;Hail, king of the Jews!&#8221;<n id="3" /> And they struck him repeatedly<n id="4" /> in the face.p>

And so, because it was the Jewish day of preparation<n id="1" /> and the tomb was nearby,<n id="2" /> they placed Jesus&#8217; body there.p>

<p class="bodytext">Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing,<n id="1" /> each holding twenty or thirty gallons.<n id="2" />

Then the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> said to him, &#8220;This temple has been under construction<n id="2" /> for forty-six years,<n id="3" /> and are you going to raise it up in three days?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">After this,<n id="1" /> Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

You people<n id="1" /> worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus<n id="1" /> began complaining about him because he said, &#8220;I am the bread that came down from heaven,&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus<n id="1" /> began to argue with one another,<n id="2" /> &#8220;How can this man<n id="3" /> give us his flesh to eat?&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">After this<n id="1" /> Jesus traveled throughout Galilee.<n id="2" /> He<n id="3" /> stayed out of Judea<n id="4" /> because the Jewish leaders<n id="5" /> wanted<n id="6" /> to kill him.

So the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> began to say,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, &#8216;Where I am going you cannot come.&#8217;&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus said to those Judeans<n id="1" /> who had believed him, &#8220;If you continue to follow my teaching,<n id="2" /> you are really<n id="3" /> my disciples

<p class="bodytext">The Judeans<n id="1" /> replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Aren&#8217;t we correct in saying<n id="3" /> that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?&#8221;<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">Now the Jewish religious leaders<n id="1" /> refused to believe<n id="2" /> that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned<n id="3" /> the parents of the man who had become able to see.<n id="4" />

The Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;We are not going to stone you for a good deed<n id="3" /> but for blasphemy,<n id="4" /> because<n id="5" /> you, a man, are claiming to be God.&#8221;<n id="6" />p>

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people<n id="1" /> who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved<n id="2" /> in spirit and greatly distressed.<n id="3" />