He came as a witness, in order that he might give testimony concerning the Light--so that all might believe through him.

And the Word came in the flesh, and lived for a time in our midst, so that we saw His glory--the glory as of the Father's only Son, sent from His presence. He was full of grace and truth.

No human eye has ever seen God: the only Son, who is in the Father's bosom--He has made Him known.

This also is John's testimony, when the Jews sent to him a deputation of Priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him who he was.

So they pressed the question. "Who are you?" they said--"that we may take an answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

"I am the voice," he replied, "of one crying aloud, 'Make straight the Lord's way in the Desert,' fulfilling the words of the Prophet Isaiah."

The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, that is the Lamb of God who is to take away the sin of the world!

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

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

"Come and you shall see," He said. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they remained and spent that day with Him. It was then about ten o'clock in the morning.

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

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" --that is to say, the Anointed One.

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, son of John: you shall be called Cephas" --that is to say, Peter (or 'Rock')

"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" replied Nathanael. "Come and see," said Philip.

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching, and said of him, "Look! here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceitfulness!"

"How do you know me?" Nathanael asked. "Before Philip called you," said Jesus, "when you were under the fig-tree I saw you."

"Rabbi," cried Nathanael, "you are the Son of God, you are Israel's King!"

"Because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig-tree,'" replied Jesus, "do you believe? You shall see greater things than that."

"I tell you all in most solemn truth," He added, "that you shall see Heaven opened wide, and God's angels going up, and coming down to the Son of Man."

So they carried some to him. And no sooner had the President tasted the water now turned into wine, than--not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn the water knew--he called to the bridegroom

So He plaited a whip of rushes, and drove all--both sheep and bullocks--out of the Temple. The small coin of the brokers He upset on the ground and overturned their tables.

And to the pigeon-dealers He said, "Take these things away. Do not turn my Father's house into a market."

So the Jews asked Him, "What proof of your authority do you exhibit to us, seeing that you do these things?"

and did not need any one's testimony concerning a man, for He of Himself knew what was in the man.

"In most solemn truth I tell you," answered Jesus, "that unless a man is born anew he cannot see the Kingdom of God."

"How is it possible," Nicodemus asked, "for a man to be born when he is old? Can he a second time enter his mother's womb and be born?"

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. So is it with every one who has been born of the Spirit."

And just as Moses lifted high the serpent in the Desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.

He who trusts in Him does not come up for judgement. He who does not trust has already received sentence, because he has not his trust resting on the name of God's only Son.

As the result, a discussion having arisen on the part of John's disciples with a Jew about purification,

He who has the bride is the bridegroom; and the bridegroom's friend who stands by his side and listens to him, rejoices heartily on account of the bridegroom's happiness. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.

For He whom God has sent speaks God's words; for God does not give the Spirit with limitations."

He who believes in the Son has the Life of the Ages; he who disobeys the Son will not enter into Life, but God's anger remains upon him.

and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.

"If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, 'Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

"Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?

"I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;

"Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.

Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."

"Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"

So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"

Do you not say, 'It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.

The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together.

For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, 'The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'

Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."

So He came once more to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. Now there was a certain officer of the King's court whose son was ill at Capernaum.

"Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."

So he inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement. "Yesterday, about seven o'clock," they replied, "the fever left him."

Jesus saw him lying there, and knowing that he had been a long time in that condition, He asked him, "Do you wish to have health and strength?"

That day was a Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath: you must not carry your mat."

His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly, and so do I."

For just as the Father awakens the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to whom He wills.

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

"I can of my own self do nothing. As I am bidden, so I judge; and mine is a just judgement, because it is not my own will that guides me, but the will of Him who sent me.

But the testimony on my behalf which I accept is not from man; though I say all this in order that you may be saved.

I have come as my Father's representative, and you do not receive me. If some one else comes representing only himself, him you will receive.

And when He looked round and saw an immense crowd coming towards Him, He said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for all these people to eat?"

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

"There is a boy here with five barley loaves and a couple of fish: but what is that among so many?"

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so they sat down, the adult men numbering about 5,000.

When all were fully satisfied, He said to His disciples, "Gather up the broken portions that remain over, so that nothing be lost."

When, however, they had rowed three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the water and coming near the boat.

When however the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they themselves also took boats and came to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

So when they had crossed the Lake and had found Him, they asked Him, "Rabbi, when did you come here?"

Bestow your pains not on the food which perishes, but on the food that remains unto the Life of the Ages--that food which will be the Son of Man's gift to you; for on Him the Father, God, has set His seal."

"What miracle then," they asked, "do you perform for us to see and become believers in you? What do you *do*?

For God's bread is that which comes down out of Heaven and gives Life to the world."

For this is my Father's will, that every one who fixes his gaze on the Son of God and believes in Him should have the Life of the Ages, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

They kept asking, "Is not this man Joseph's son? Is he not Jesus, whose father and mother we know? What does he mean by now saying, 'I have come down out of Heaven'?"

As the ever-living Father has sent me, and I live because of the Father, so also he who eats me will live because of me.

"Does this seem incredible to you? What then if you were to see the Son of Man ascending again where He was before?

So He added, "That is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

So His brothers said to Him, "Leave these parts and go into Judaea, that not only we but your disciples also may witness the miracles which you perform.

Among the mass of the people there was much muttered debate about Him. Some said, "He is a good man." Others said, "Not so: he is imposing on the people."

But here he is, speaking openly and boldly, and they say nothing to him! Can the Rulers really have ascertained that this man is the Christ?

So Jesus said, "Still for a short time I am with you, and then I go my way to Him who sent me.

The Jews therefore said to one another, "Where is he about to betake himself, so that we shall not find him? Will he betake himself to the Dispersion among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles?

After listening to these discourses, some of the crowd began to say, "This is beyond doubt the Prophet."

Others said, "He is the Christ." But others again, "Not so, for is the Christ to come from Galilee?

Has not the Scripture declared that the Christ is to come of the family of David and from Bethlehem, David's village?"

So there was a violent dissension among the people on His account.

"Does our Law," he asked, "judge a man without first hearing what he has to say and ascertaining what his conduct is?"

"Do you also come from Galilee?" they asked in reply. "Search and see for yourself that no Prophet is of Galilaean origin."

So they went away to their several homes;

Now, in the Law, Moses has ordered us to stone such women to death. But what do you say?"

They asked this in order to put Him to the test, so that they might have some charge to bring against Him. But Jesus leant forward and began to write with His finger on the ground.

So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing; but as the Father has taught me, so I speak.

Now a slave does not remain permanently in his master's house, but a son does.

"Our father is Abraham," they said. "If you were Abraham's children," replied Jesus, "it is Abraham's deeds that you would be doing.

He who is a child of God listens to God's words. You do not listen to them: and why? It is because you are not God's children."

In most solemn truth I tell you that if any one shall have obeyed my teaching he shall in no case ever see death."

"Now," exclaimed the Jews, "we know that you are possessed by a demon. Abraham died, and so did the Prophets, and yet *you* say, 'If any one shall have obeyed my teaching, he shall in no case ever taste death.'

"Were I to glorify myself," answered Jesus, "I should have no real glory. There is One who glorifies me--namely my Father, who you say is your God.

Abraham your forefather exulted in the hope of seeing my day: and he saw it, and was glad."

As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"

"Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.

After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,