It was through Him that everything came into existence, and apart from Him not a single thing came into existence.

It was by Him that life began to exist, and that life was the light of mankind.

He came for the purpose of testifying, to testify to the light, so that everyone through him might come to believe.

He came into the world, and though the world through Him began to exist, it did not recognize Him.

He came into His own world, but His own people did not welcome Him.

But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,

John testified to Him and cried out, for this was the one who said, "The One who is coming after me has been put before me, because He existed before me."

No one has ever seen God; the only son, Deity Himself, who lies upon His Father's breast, has made him known.

Now this is the testimony which John gave when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem, to ask him, "Who are you?"

So they asked him again, "What are you then? Elijah?" And he answered, "Of course, I am not." "Are you the prophet?" He answered, "No."

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us, so that we can have an answer to give to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

so they asked him, "Why are you baptizing then, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

I did not know Him myself, but I came baptizing in water, that He might be made known to Israel."

Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on Him.

I did not know Him myself, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining, is the One who is to baptize in the Holy Spirit.'

The two disciples heard him say this, and so they followed Jesus.

Now Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said, "What are you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come and you will see." So they went and saw where He was staying, and they spent the rest of the day with Him; it was about four in the afternoon.

He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means, the Christ).

Then he took him to Jesus. Jesus looked him over and said, "You are Simon, son of John. From now on your name shall be Cephas" (which means Peter, or Rock).

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. So He sought out Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

Philip sought out Nathaniel and said to him, "We have found the One about whom Moses wrote in the law and the One about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth."

Then Nathaniel said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite with no deceit in him!"

Nathaniel said to Him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "While you were still under the fig tree, before Philip called you, I saw you."

Nathaniel answered Him, "Teacher, you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel!"

Jesus answered him, "Do you believe in me because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this."

Then He said to him, "I most solemnly say to you all, you will see heaven opened and the angels of God going up, and coming down upon the Son of Man!"

When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!"

Then He said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the manager of the feast." So they took him some.

and said to him, "Everybody, as a rule, serves his good wine first, and his poorer wine after people have drunk freely; you have kept the good wine till now."

Jesus performed this, the first of His wonder-works, at Cana in Galilee. By it He showed His glorious power, and so His disciples believed in Him.

Then the Jews addressed Him and asked, "What sign can you show us that you have authority to act in this way?"

Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ.

He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, unless God is with him."

Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel and do not know this?

so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life.

"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

Whoever trusts in Him is never to come up for judgment, but whoever does not trust in Him has already received his sentence, because he has not trusted in the name of God's only Son.

And they went to John and said to him, "Teacher, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, to whom you bore testimony yourself, is baptizing people and everybody is going to Him."

John answered, "A man cannot get anything, unless it is given to him from heaven.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride, but the bridegroom's friend, who stands outside and listens to him, is very happy to hear the bridegroom's voice. So this happiness of mine is running over.

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

Whoever trusts in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever refuses to trust in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God continues to remain on him.

So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

She said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water?

but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

The woman said to Him, "Give me this water at once, sir, so I may never get thirsty again, nor have to come so far to draw water."

The woman said to Him, "I see that you are a prophet.

Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Him."

God is a spiritual Being, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and reality."

The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything."

Just then His disciples came up, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman, yet not one of them asked Him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

So the people left town and rushed out to see Him.

Meanwhile the disciples were asking Him, and saying, "Teacher, eat something."

So the disciples began to say to one another, "Nobody has brought Him anything to eat, has he?"

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did."

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they kept on urging Him to stay with them; so He did stay there two days.

Then a much larger number believed in Him because of what He said Himself,

and they were saying to the woman, "It is not merely because of what you said that we now believe, for we have heard Him ourselves, and we know that He is really the Saviour of the world."

So when He reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, for they had seen everything that He had done at the feast in Jerusalem, for they too had attended the feast.

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

The king's officer pleaded with Him, "Sir, come down at once before my child is dead!"

Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.

While he was still coming down, his slaves met him and told him, "Your boy is going to live."

So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

Jesus saw him lying there, and when He found out that he had been in that condition for a long time, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet, and go to walking."

They asked him, "Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking'?"

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple court, and said to him, "See! You are now well. Stop sinning or something worse may befall you."

The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

It was on account of this that the Jews tried all the harder to put Him to death, because He not only persisted in breaking the Sabbath, but also kept on saying that God was His Father, and so was making Himself equal to God.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing, and He will show Him greater deeds than these, so that you will keep on wondering.

that all men may honor the Son as they do the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

He has also granted to Him authority to act as Judge because He is the Son of Man.

I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.

I have come in my Father's name, but you refuse to accept me. If anyone else should come in his own name, you would accept him.

And a vast crowd continued to follow Him, for they pressed on to view the wonder-works which He performed for the sick people.

So Jesus looked up and saw that a vast crowd was coming toward Him, and said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

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

Philip answered Him, "Forty dollars' worth of bread is not enough to give them all even a scanty meal apiece."

Another of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

So when Jesus learned that they were going to come and carry Him off by force to crown Him king, He again retired to the hill by Himself.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat came to the shore it was making for.

So when they had crossed the sea and found Him, they asked Him, "Teacher, when did you get here?"

Stop toiling for the food that perishes, but toil for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has given Him authority to do so."

Then they asked Him, "What must we do to perform the works that God demands?"

So they asked Him, "What wonder-work then are you going to perform for us to see and so believe in you? What work are you going to do?

Then they said to Him, "Give us that bread always, sir!"

because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me.

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.