He was not the light,
but he came to testify about the light.

But to all who did receive Him,
He gave them the right to be children of God,
to those who believe in His name,

who were born,
not of blood,
or of the will of the flesh,
or of the will of man,
but of God.

He did not refuse to answer, but he declared: “I am not the Messiah.”

“I baptize with water,” John answered them. “Someone stands among you, but you don’t know Him.

I didn’t know Him, but I came baptizing with water so He might be revealed to Israel.”

I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

and told him, “Everyone sets out the fine wine first, then, after people have drunk freely, the inferior. But you have kept the fine wine until now.”

But He was speaking about the sanctuary of His body.

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

“I assure you: We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but you do not accept Our testimony.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

But anyone who lives by the truth comes to the light, so that his works may be shown to be accomplished by God.”

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

He must increase, but I must decrease.”

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

(though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.

But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

The Father, in fact, judges no one but has given all judgment to the Son,

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

and come out—those who have done good things, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done wicked things, to the resurrection of judgment.

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

I don’t receive man’s testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

“But I have a greater testimony than John’s because of the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish. These very works I am doing testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.

but I know you—that you have no love for God within you.

But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them.

But He said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid!”

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat. They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone.

Jesus answered, “I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Moses didn’t give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the real bread from heaven.

But as I told you, you’ve seen Me, and yet you do not believe.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

The world cannot hate you, but it does hate Me because I testify about it—that its deeds are evil.

After His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly but secretly.

Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.

The one who speaks for himself seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

“Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

Others said, “This is the Messiah!” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does He?

Some of them wanted to seize Him, but no one laid hands on Him.

But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed!”

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

Then Jesus spoke to them again: “I am the light of the world. Anyone who follows Me will never walk in the darkness but will have the light of life.”

“Even if I testify about Myself,” Jesus replied, “My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.

And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judge together.

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour had not come.

“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me is true, and what I have heard from Him—these things I tell the world.”

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

You’ve never known Him, but I know Him. If I were to say I don’t know Him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know Him, and I keep His word.

At that, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple complex.

Some said, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”

He kept saying, “I’m the one!”

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’ disciples.

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

“If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see’—your sin remains.

“I assure you: Anyone who doesn’t enter the sheep pen by the door but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

All who came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them.

But I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.”

But you don’t believe because you are not My sheep.

“We aren’t stoning You for a good work,” the Jews answered, “but for blasphemy, because You—being a man—make Yourself God.”

But if I am doing them and you don’t believe Me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand that the Father is in Me and I in the Father.”

Many came to Him and said, “John never did a sign, but everything John said about this man was true.”

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

He said this, and then He told them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I’m on My way to wake him up.”

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep.

I’m glad for you that I wasn’t there so that you may believe. But let’s go to him.”

As soon as Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet Him. But Mary remained seated in the house.

Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him.

But some of them said, “Couldn’t He who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying?”

I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me.”

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.