John 11:55

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

It was almost time for Passover. Many of the Jewish people who lived out in the country had come to Jerusalem to get themselves ready for the festival.

Cross References

Genesis 35:2

Jacob said to his family and to everyone else who was travelling with him: Get rid of your foreign gods! Then make yourselves acceptable to worship God and put on clean clothes.

Job 1:5

After each feast, Job would send for his children and perform a ceremony, as a way of asking God to forgive them for any wrongs they might have done. He would get up early the next morning and offer a sacrifice for each of them, just in case they had sinned or silently cursed God.

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands, LORD, to show my innocence, and I worship at your altar,

Exodus 19:10

Once more the LORD spoke to Moses: Go back and tell the people that today and tomorrow they must get themselves ready to meet me. They must wash their clothes

Numbers 9:10

to say to the community of Israel: If any of you or your descendants touch a dead body and become unfit to worship me, or if you are away on a long journey, you may still celebrate Passover.

Numbers 9:6

Some people in Israel's camp had touched a dead body and had become unfit to worship the LORD, and they could not celebrate Passover. But they asked Moses and Aaron,

Matthew 26:1

When Jesus had finished teaching, he told his disciples,

Matthew 26:2

“You know that two days from now will be Passover. That is when the Son of Man will be handed over to his enemies and nailed to a cross.”

Mark 14:1

It was now two days before Passover and the Festival of Thin Bread. The chief priests and the teachers of the Law of Moses were secretly planning to have Jesus arrested and put to death.

Luke 22:1

The Festival of Thin Bread, also called Passover, was near.

John 12:1

Six days before Passover Jesus went back to Bethany, where he had raised Lazarus from death.

John 13:1

It was before Passover, and Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and to return to the Father. He had always loved his followers in this world, and he loved them to the very end.

John 18:28

It was early in the morning when Jesus was taken from Caiaphas to the building where the Roman governor stayed. But the crowd waited outside. Any of them who had gone inside would have become unclean and would not be allowed to eat the Passover meal.

John 2:13

Not long before the Jewish festival of Passover, Jesus went to Jerusalem.

John 2:6

At the feast there were six stone water jars that were used by the people for washing themselves in the way that their religion said they must. Each jar held about a hundred litres.

John 5:1

Later, Jesus went to Jerusalem for another Jewish festival.

Acts 21:24

Join with them and prepare yourself for the ceremony that goes with the promises. Pay the cost for their heads to be shaved. Then everyone will learn that the reports about you are not true. They will know that you do obey the Law of Moses.

Acts 21:26

The next day Paul took the four men with him and got himself ready at the same time they did. Then he went into the temple and told when the final ceremony would take place and when an offering would be made for each of them.

Acts 24:18

This is what I was doing when I was found going through a ceremony in the temple. I wasn't with a crowd, and there was no uproar.

1 Corinthians 11:28

That's why you must examine the way you eat and drink.

James 4:8

Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind.

1 Samuel 16:5

“Yes, it is!” Samuel answered. “I've come to offer a sacrifice to the LORD. Get yourselves ready to take part in the sacrifice and come with me.” Samuel also invited Jesse and his sons to come to the sacrifice, and he got them ready to take part.