Lexicon :: Strong's G2453 - ioudaios

saying, “Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star at its rising and have come to worship him.”[fn]

Now Jesus stood before the governor. “Are you the king of the Jews? ” the governor asked him.

Jesus answered, “You say so.”

They twisted together a crown of thorns, put it on his head, and placed a staff in his right hand. And they knelt down before him and mocked him: “Hail, king of the Jews! ”

Above his head they put up the charge against him in writing: This Is Jesus, the King of the Jews.

They took the money and did as they were instructed, and this story has been spread among Jewish people to this day.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, keeping the tradition of the elders.

So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews? ”

He answered him, “You say so.”

Pilate answered them, “Do you want me to release the king of the Jews for you? ”

Pilate asked them again, “Then what do you want me to do with the one you call the king of the Jews? ”

And they began to salute him, “Hail, king of the Jews! ”

The inscription of the charge written against him was: The King of the Jews.

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, requesting him to come and save the life of his servant.

So Pilate asked him, “Are you the king of the Jews? ”

He answered him, “You say so.”[fn]

and said, “If you are the king of the Jews, save yourself! ”

who had not agreed with their plan and action. He was from Arimathea, a Judean town, and was looking forward to the kingdom of God.

This was John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you? ”

Now six stone water jars had been set there for Jewish purification. Each contained twenty or thirty gallons.[fn]

The Jewish Passover was near, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

So the Jews replied to him, “What sign will you show us for doing these things? ”

Therefore the Jews said, “This temple took forty-six years to build,[fn] and will you raise it up in three days? ”

There was a man from the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Then a dispute arose between John’s disciples and a Jew[fn] about purification.

“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? ” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with[fn] Samaritans.[fn]

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

After this, a Jewish festival took place, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

and so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath. The law prohibits you from picking up your mat.”

The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill him: Not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal to God.

Now the Passover, a Jewish festival, was near.

Therefore the Jews started grumbling about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat? ”

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since he did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill him.

The Jews were looking for him at the festival and saying, “Where is he? ”

Still, nobody was talking publicly about him for fear of the Jews.

Then the Jews were amazed and said, “How is this man so learned, since he hasn’t been trained? ”

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed[fn] among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does he?

So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’? ”

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word,[fn] you really are my disciples.

The Jews responded to him, “Aren’t we right in saying that you’re a Samaritan and have a demon? ”

Then the Jews said, “Now we know you have a demon. Abraham died and so did the prophets. You say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’

The Jews replied, “You aren’t fifty years old yet, and you’ve seen Abraham? ”[fn]

The Jews did not believe this about him ​— ​that he was blind and received sight ​— ​until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

Again the Jews were divided because of these words.

The Jews surrounded him and asked, “How long are you going to keep us in suspense?[fn] If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.”[fn]

Again the Jews picked up rocks to stone him.

“We aren’t stoning you for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because you ​— ​being a man ​— ​make yourself God.”