For the law was given through Moses; grace and the true way of life are ours through Jesus Christ.

And this is the witness of John when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to him with the question, Who are you?

And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.

So they said to him, Who are you then? We have to give some answer to those who sent us. What have you to say about yourself?

And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?

And Jesus, turning round, saw them coming after him and said to them, What are you looking for? They said to him, Rabbi (which is to say, Master), where are you living?

And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter).

Nathanael said to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel!

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

The wind goes where its pleasure takes it, and the sound of it comes to your ears, but you are unable to say where it comes from and where it goes: so it is with everyone whose birth is from the Spirit.

And Jesus, answering, said, Are you the teacher of Israel and have no knowledge of these things?

If you have no belief when my words are about the things of earth, how will you have belief if my words are about the things of heaven?

And this is the test by which men are judged: the light has come into the world and men have more love for the dark than for the light, because their acts are evil.

The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

He who has the bride is the husband: but the husband's friend, whose place is by his side and whose ears are open to him, is full of joy because of the husband's voice: such is my joy, and it is complete.

He who comes from heaven is greater than all others: he who comes from earth is of the earth, and of the earth are his words: he who comes from heaven is over all.

Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

The woman said to him, Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.

But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.

At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?

You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

After a time Jesus came across him in the Temple and said to him, See, you are well and strong; do no more sin for fear a worse thing comes to you.

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,

I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

If you had belief in Moses you would have belief in me; for his writings are about me.

And when they had had enough, Jesus said to his disciples, Take up the broken bits which are over, so that nothing may be wasted.

Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

The spirit is the life giver; the flesh is of no value: the words which I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

Then Simon Peter gave this answer: Lord, to whom are we to go? you have the words of eternal life;

And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God.

This was the answer of Jesus: I have done one work and you are all surprised at it.

If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

But these people who have no knowledge of the law are cursed.

Then Jesus got up, and seeing nobody but the woman, he said to her, Where are the men who said things against you? did no one give a decision against you?

You are judging from what you see; I am judging no man.

And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.

He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples;

They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free?

I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

Why are my words not clear to you? It is because your ears are shut to my teaching.

You are the children of your father the Evil One and it is your pleasure to do his desires. From the first he was a taker of life; and he did not go in the true way because there is no true thing in him. When he says what is false, it is natural to him, for he is false and the father of what is false.

He who is a child of God gives ear to the words of God: your ears are not open to them because you are not from God.

The Jews said to him in answer, Are we not right in saying that you are of Samaria and have an evil spirit?

The Jews said to him, Now we are certain that you have an evil spirit. Abraham is dead, and the prophets are dead; and you say, If a man keeps my word he will never see death.

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you say that you are?

Then the Jews said to him, You are not fifty years old; have you seen Abraham?

In answer his father and mother said, We are certain that this is our son and that he was blind at birth:

But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.

And they were angry with him and said, You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?

Truly I say to you, He who does not go through the door into the place where the sheep are kept, but gets in by some other way, is a thief and an outlaw.

All who came before me are thieves and outlaws: but the sheep did not give ear to them.

And I have other sheep which are not of this field: I will be their guide in the same way, and they will give ear to my voice, so there will be one flock and one keeper.

Others said, These are not the words of one who has an evil spirit. Is it possible for an evil spirit to make blind people see?

Then the Jews came round him, saying, how long are you going to keep us in doubt? If you are the Christ, say so clearly.

But you have no belief because you are not of my sheep.

I and my Father are one.

Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?

This was their answer: We are not stoning you for a good work but for evil words; because being a man you make yourself God.

In answer, Jesus said, Is there not a saying in your law, I said, You are gods?

Do you say of him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, Your words are evil; because I said, I am God's Son?

The disciples said to him, Master, the Jews were attempting only the other day to have you stoned, and are you going back there again?

Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world.

She said to him, Yes, Lord: my faith is that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world.

I was certain that your ears are at all times open to me, but I said it because of these who are here, so that they may see that you sent me.

Then the high priests and the Pharisees had a meeting and said, What are we doing? This man is doing a number of signs.

Then the Pharisees said one to another, You see, you are unable to do anything: the world has gone after him.

So he came to Simon Peter. Peter said, Lord, are my feet to be washed by you?

Jesus said to him, He who is bathed has need only to have his feet washed and then he is clean all over: and you, my disciples, are clean, but not all of you.

(He had knowledge who was false to him; that is why he said, You are not all clean.)

You give me the name of Master and Lord: and you are right; that is what I am.

If these things are clear to you, happy are you if you do them.

I am not talking of you all: I have knowledge of my true disciples, but things are as they are, so that the Writings may come true, The foot of him who takes bread with me is lifted up against me.

I give you a new law: Have love one for another; even as I have had love for you, so are you to have love one for another.

By this it will be clear to all men that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another.

Simon Peter said to him, Lord, where are you going? Jesus said in answer, Where I am going you may not come with me now, but you will come later.

Jesus said in answer, Will you give up your life for me? Truly I say to you, Before the cry of the cock you will have said three times that you are not my disciple.

In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?

Thomas said, Lord, we have no knowledge of where you are going; how may we have knowledge of the way?

At that time it will be clear to you that I am in my Father, and you are in me, and I in you.

He who has no love for me does not keep my words; and the word which you are hearing is not my word but the Father's who sent me.

You are clean, even now, through the teaching which I have given you.

Be in me at all times as I am in you. As the branch is not able to give fruit of itself, if it is not still on the vine, so you are not able to do so if you are not in me.

I am the vine, you are the branches: he who is in me at all times as I am in him, gives much fruit, because without me you are able to do nothing.

If a man does not keep himself in me, he becomes dead and is cut off like a dry branch; such branches are taken up and put in the fire and burned.

If you are in me at all times, and my words are in you, then anything for which you make a request will be done for you.

Here is my Father's glory, in that you give much fruit and so are my true disciples.

You are my friends, if you do what I give you orders to do.

If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you.

If you were of the world, you would be loved by the world: but because you are not of the world, but I have taken you out of the world, you are hated by the world.