John 11:55
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New International Version (©1984)
When it was almost time for the Jewish Passover, many went up from the country to Jerusalem for their ceremonial cleansing before the Passover.

New Living Translation (©2007)
It was now almost time for the Jewish Passover celebration, and many people from all over the country arrived in Jerusalem several days early so they could go through the purification ceremony before Passover began.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover to purify themselves.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Now the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the Passover to purify themselves.

International Standard Version (©2008)
Now the Jewish Passover was approaching, and before the Passover many people from the countryside went up to Jerusalem to purify themselves.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
The Jewish Passover was near. Many people came from the countryside to Jerusalem to purify themselves before the Passover.

King James Bible
And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

American King James Version
And the Jews' passover was near at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

American Standard Version
Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves.

Bible in Basic English
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.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the pasch of the Jews was at hand; and many from the country went up to Jerusalem, before the pasch to purify themselves.

Darby Bible Translation
But the passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves.

English Revised Version
Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify themselves.

Webster's Bible Translation
And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

Weymouth New Testament
The Jewish Passover was coming near, and many from that district went up to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

World English Bible
Now the Passover of the Jews was at hand. Many went up from the country to Jerusalem before the Passover, to purify themselves.

Young's Literal Translation
And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

Geneva Study Bible

And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

People's New Testament

11:55 The Jews' passover was near. It was only a few weeks before the passover that he went to Ephraim.

To purify themselves. From ceremonial uncleanness. See Ex 19:10,11.

Wesley's Notes

11:55 Many went up to purify themselves - That they might remove all hinderances to their eating the passover.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

55-57. passover . at hand . many went . up . before the passover, to purify themselves-from any legal uncleanness which would have disqualified them from keeping the feast. This is mentioned to introduce the graphic statement which follows.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

11:54-57 Before our gospel passover we must renew our repentance. Thus by a voluntary purification, and by religious exercises, many, more devout than their neighbours, spent some time before the passover at Jerusalem. When we expect to meet God, we must solemnly prepare. No devices of man can alter the purposes of God: and while hypocrites amuse themselves with forms and disputes, and worldly men pursue their own plans, Jesus still orders all things for his own glory and the salvation of his people.


Numbers 9:10 "Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, 'If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, observe the Passover to the LORD.
2 Chronicles 30:17 For there were many in the assembly who had not consecrated themselves; therefore, the Levites were over the slaughter of the Passover lambs for everyone who was unclean, in order to consecrate them to the LORD.
Matthew 26:1 When Jesus had finished all these words, He said to His disciples,
Mark 14:1 Now the Passover and Unleavened Bread were two days away; and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how to seize Him by stealth and kill Him;
Luke 22:1 Now the Feast of Unleavened Bread, which is called the Passover, was approaching.
John 2:13 The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.
John 12:1 Jesus, therefore, six days before the Passover, came to Bethany where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead.
John 13:1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
John 18:28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the Praetorium, and it was early; and they themselves did not enter into the Praetorium so that they would not be defiled, but might eat the Passover. (NASB ©1995)

Almost Ceremonial Cleansing Country District Hand Jerusalem Jewish Jews Nigh Numbers Passover Purify Themselves Time


And the Jews' passover was nigh at hand: and many went out of the country up to Jerusalem before the passover, to purify themselves.

passover. 2:13 5:1 6:4 Ex 12:11 *etc:

before. 7:8-10 12:1 Ezr 3:1 *etc: Ne 8:1 *etc:

to purify. 2:6 Ge 35:2 Ex 19:10,14,15 Nu 9:6 1Sa 16:5 2Ch 30:17-20 Job 1:5 Ps 26:6 Ac 24:18 1Co 11:28 Heb 9:13,14 Jas 4:8

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