So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

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

So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.

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

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.

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.'

I did see it; and my testimony is that He is the Son of God."

and as he saw Jesus passing by he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God!"

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.

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

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

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."

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!"

Jesus said to them, "Fill these jars with water." So they filled them up to the brim.

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

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.

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching; so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

So He made a lash out of cords, and drove them all, together with the sheep and cattle, out of the temple court, scattered the money-changers' coins and upset their tables.

Then He said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things out of here! Stop using my Father's house as a market place!"

His disciples recalled that the Scriptures say, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

So after He had risen from the dead, His disciples recalled that He had said this, and so believed the Scripture and the statement that He had made.

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.

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, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

I most solemnly say to you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen what we are testifying to, yet you are all rejecting our testimony.

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.

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.

But whoever is in the habit of living the truth will come out in the daylight, that his actions may be shown to be performed with God's help."

But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

Then a discussion came up between John's disciples and a Jew about purification.

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.

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 He came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.

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.

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."

"Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

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

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

Now the reaper is already getting pay, for he is gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

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.

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.

So He came back to Cana in Galilee where He had turned the water into wine. Now there was at Capernaum an officer of the king's court whose son was sick.

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!"

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.

After this there was a feast of the Jews, and so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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?"

So the Jews began to say to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the law for you to carry your pallet."

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."

Then He answered them, "My Father is still working, and so am I."

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.

So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.

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.

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

"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.

I most solemnly say to you, a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

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.

But I have testimony that is higher than John's, for the works which my Father has committed to me to finish, the very works that I am doing, testify to me that the Father 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.

But if you do not believe what he wrote, how will you ever believe what I say?"

After this Jesus went to the other side of the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.

And so Jesus went up on the hill and was sitting there with His disciples.

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?"

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

"There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what are they among so many?"

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

Then Jesus took the loaves and gave thanks, and distributed them among the people who were sitting on the ground; so too with the fish as much as they wanted.

So they picked them up and filled twelve baskets with the pieces that were left from the five barley loaves, which were more than the eaters wanted.

When the people, therefore, saw the wonder-works that He performed, they began to say, "This is surely the prophet who was to come into the world."

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.

When evening came, His disciples went down to the sea

and got into a boat and started across the sea to Capernaum. Now it was already dark, and Jesus had not come to them.

The sea was getting rough, because a strong wind was blowing.

When they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were terror-stricken.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there was only one boat there, and that Jesus had not gotten into it with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone away by themselves.

So when the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into boats themselves and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

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

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, you are looking for me, not because of the wonder-works you saw, but because you ate the loaves and had plenty.

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."

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 Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the real bread out of heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the real bread out of heaven,

For it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the last day."

And they said, "Is He not Jesus, Joseph's son, whose father and mother we know? So how can He say, 'I have come down out of heaven'?"