John 6:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Now the Passover, a feast of the Jews, was near.

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  • John 2:13 : 13 The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  • John 11:55 : 55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.
  • Deut 16:1 : 1 Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night.
  • John 5:1 : 1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
  • Exod 12:6-9 : 6 Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark. 7 Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken. 8 And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants. 9 Do not take it uncooked or cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with its legs and its inside parts. 10 Do not keep any of it till the morning; anything which is not used is to be burned with fire. 11 And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover. 12 For on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I am the Lord. 13 And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are: when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt. 14 And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.
  • Lev 23:5 : 5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;
  • Lev 23:7 : 7 On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.
  • John 12:1 : 1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.
  • John 13:1 : 1 Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

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  • John 2:13
    83%

    13 The time of the Passover of the Jews was near and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

  • Luke 22:1
    83%

    1 Now the feast of unleavened bread was near, which is called the Passover.

  • John 11:54-56
    3 verses
    80%

    54 So Jesus no longer went about publicly among the Jews, but went from there into the country near to the waste land, to a town named Ephraim, where he was for some time with the disciples.

    55 Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and numbers of people went up from the country to Jerusalem to make themselves clean before the Passover.

    56 They were looking for Jesus and saying to one another while they were in the Temple, What is your opinion? Will he not come to the feast?

  • Matt 26:17-20
    4 verses
    79%

    17 Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

    18 And he said to them, Go into the town to such a man, and say to him, The Master says, My time is near: I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.

    19 And the disciples did as Jesus had said to them; and they made ready the Passover.

    20 Now when evening was come, he was seated at table with the twelve disciples;

  • John 5:1
    79%

    1 After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

  • Luke 22:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7 And the day of unleavened bread came, when the Passover lamb is put to death.

    8 And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make the Passover ready for us, so that we may take it.

    9 And they said to him, Where are we to get it ready?

  • John 7:2
    78%

    2 But the feast of the Jews, the feast of tents, was near.

  • John 6:5
    78%

    5 Lifting up his eyes, Jesus saw a great number of people coming to where he was, and he said to Philip, Where may we get bread for all these people?

  • Mark 14:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 It was now two days before the feast of the Passover and the unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes made designs how they might take him by deceit and put him to death:

    2 But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear there may be trouble among the people.

  • John 6:3
    76%

    3 Then Jesus went up the mountain and was seated there with his disciples.

  • Matt 26:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1 And when Jesus had come to the end of all these words, he said to his disciples,

    2 After two days is the Passover, and the Son of man will be given up to the death of the cross.

  • Mark 14:12
    76%

    12 And on the first day of unleavened bread, when the Passover lamb is put to death, his disciples said to him, Where are we to go and make ready for you to take the Passover meal?

  • Mark 14:16-17
    2 verses
    74%

    16 And the disciples went out and came into the town, and saw that it was as he had said: and they made ready the Passover.

    17 And when it was evening he came with the twelve.

  • John 12:1
    73%

    1 Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had made to come back from the dead.

  • John 13:1
    73%

    1 Now before the feast of the Passover, it was clear to Jesus that the time had come for him to go away from this world to the Father. Having once had love for those in the world who were his, his love for them went on to the end.

  • Mark 6:35
    73%

    35 And at the end of the day, his disciples came to him and said, This place is waste land, and it is late:

  • John 12:12
    73%

    12 The day after, a great number of people who were there for the feast, when they had the news that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,

  • Lev 23:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at nightfall, is the Lord's Passover;

    6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.

  • Luke 22:13-15
    3 verses
    72%

    13 And they went, and it was as he had said: and they made the Passover ready.

    14 And when the time had come, he took his seat, and the Apostles with him.

    15 And he said, I have had a great desire to keep this Passover with you before I come to my death;

  • John 4:45
    72%

    45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast--they themselves having been there at the feast.

  • John 12:20
    72%

    20 Now there were some Greeks among the people who had come up to give worship at the feast:

  • Matt 26:5
    72%

    5 But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.

  • John 6:1
    71%

    1 After these things Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee--that is, the sea of Tiberias.

  • John 7:11
    71%

    11 At the feast the Jews were looking for him and saying, Where is he?

  • John 19:14
    71%

    14 (It was the day when they made ready for the Passover; and it was about the sixth hour.) And he said to the Jews, There is your King!

  • Luke 6:1
    71%

    1 Now it came about that on the Sabbath he was going through the fields of grain, and his disciples took the heads of the grain for food, crushing them in their hands.

  • John 6:16
    71%

    16 When evening came the disciples went down to the sea;

  • Ezek 45:21
    71%

    21 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food.

  • John 6:52
    71%

    52 Then the Jews had an angry discussion among themselves, saying, How is it possible for this man to give us his flesh for food?

  • Josh 5:10
    70%

    10 So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho.

  • Luke 22:11
    70%

    11 And say to the master of the house, The Master says, Where is the guest-room, where I may take the Passover with my disciples?

  • John 7:14
    70%

    14 Now in the middle of the feast Jesus went up to the Temple and was teaching.

  • Num 28:16
    70%

    16 And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.

  • 2 Chr 35:17
    70%

    17 And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.

  • John 18:28
    70%

    28 So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

  • Luke 14:1
    70%

    1 And it came about that when he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees on the Sabbath, to have a meal, they were watching him.

  • Luke 6:4
    70%

    4 How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread, which only the priests may take, and gave it to those who were with him?