KJV King James Version
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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John 5:1
After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Some time later there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
WEB World English Bible
After these things, there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
ASV American Standard Version
After these things there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,
Surrounding context — John 5
1 After this there was a feast of the Jews; and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
2 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep [market] a pool, which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having five porches.
3 In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.
4 For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.
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Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:Exodus 23:14-17Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.Leviticus 23:2-4Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.Exodus 34:23Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel.John 2:13And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem,Galatians 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,Matthew 3:15And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer [it to be so] now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
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