All things were created through Him,
and apart from Him not one thing was created
that has been created.

Life was in Him,
and that life was the light of men.

He came as a witness
to testify about the light,
so that all might believe through him.

He was in the world,
and the world was created through Him,
yet the world did not recognize Him.

He came to His own,
and His own people did not receive Him.

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

(John testified concerning Him and exclaimed,
“This was the One of whom I said,
‘The One coming after me has surpassed me,
because He existed before me.’”)

No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.

This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

“What then?” they asked him. “Are you Elijah?”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet?”

“No,” he answered.

So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”

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

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

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

And John testified, “I watched the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and He rested on Him.

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.’

The two disciples heard him say this and followed Jesus.

When Jesus turned and noticed them following Him, He asked them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are You staying?”

“Come and you’ll see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about 10 in the morning.

Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard John and followed Him.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which means “Anointed One”),

and he brought Simon to Jesus.

When Jesus saw him, He said, “You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which means “Rock”).

The next day He decided to leave for Galilee. Jesus found Philip and told him, “Follow Me!”

Philip found Nathanael and told him, “We have found the One Moses wrote about in the Law (and so did the prophets): Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth!”

“Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathanael asked him.

“Come and see,” Philip answered.

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

Jesus responded to him, “Do you believe only because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.”

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.”

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.”

Jesus performed this first sign in Cana of Galilee. He displayed His glory, and His disciples believed in Him.

So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?”

This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”

“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?”

so that everyone who believes in Him will have eternal life.

“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.

So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing—and everyone is flocking to Him.”

John responded, “No one can receive a single thing unless it’s given to him from heaven.

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.

For God sent Him, and He speaks God’s words, since He gives the Spirit without measure.

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.

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

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.”

“Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

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.

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

They left the town and made their way to Him.

In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him,” they answered.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew he had already been there a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to get well?”

“Get up,” Jesus told him, “pick up your mat and walk!”

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

The man went and reported to the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well.

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.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing, and He will show Him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

“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 He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

“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 have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

And a huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick.

Therefore, when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward Him, He asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so these people can eat?”

He asked this to test him, for He Himself knew what He was going to do.

One of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, said to Him,

Therefore, when Jesus knew that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He withdrew again to the mountain by Himself.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

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.”

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.

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Therefore the Jews started complaining about Him because He said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.”

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.

Anyone who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day,

The one who eats My flesh and drinks My blood lives in Me, and I in him.

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.)

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

From that moment many of His disciples turned back and no longer accompanied Him.

He was referring to Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, one of the Twelve, because he was going to betray Him.

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

so His brothers said to Him, “Leave here and go to Judea so Your disciples can see Your works that You are doing.

(For not even His brothers believed in Him.)

The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He?”

And there was a lot of discussion about Him among the crowds. Some were saying, “He’s a good man.” Others were saying, “No, on the contrary, He’s deceiving the people.”

Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.