John bore witness concerning him, and cried aloud, saying, "This is he of whom I said, 'He who is coming after me has been put before me, for he was before me.'"

"What then?" they questioned; "Are you Elijah?" He said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" "No," he replied.

Then said they to him. "Who are you? That we may give some answer to those who sent us. What account do you give of yourself?"

He said, "I am a voice of one who cries aloud in the desert, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as said the prophet Isaiah."

"I indeed am baptizing in water," John said in reply, "but in your midst stands One whom you do not recognize,

The next day he saw Jesus coming toward him, and said: "Behold, that is God's Lamb, who takes and bears away the sin of the world.

This is he of whom I said, 'After me comes One who has been put before me, for he was before me.'

And I did not recognize him, but He who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and resting upon him, is he who baptizes in the Holy Spirit.'

After gazing intently on Jesus as he walked about, he said, "Look! that is the Lamb of God!"

Then Jesus turned and saw them following him, and said, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated 'Teacher'), "where are you staying?"

He said to them, "Come, and you shall see." So they went and saw where he was staying, and spent that day with him. It was then about four o'clock in the afternoon.

One of the two men who heard what John said and followed Jesus, was Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter.

In the morning he found his brother Simon, and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (a word which means Christ, the Anointed One).

He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked intently at him and said: "You are Simon, son of John; you shall be called Cephas" (or 'Peter,' which means 'Rock').

Next day Jesus decided to go into Galilee; and he found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

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

Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him, and said, "Behold a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit."

Jesus said in reply. "Do you believe because I said to you, 'I saw you under the fig tree?'

And when the wine ran short, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine."

"Woman," said Jesus, "what have you to do with me? My time is not yet come."

His mother said to the attendants, "Whatever he may tell you to do, do it."

Jesus said, "Fill up the jars with water."

So they filled them brimful. Then he said, "Draw some out now, and carry it to the master of the feast."

So they carried it. And when the master of the feast had tasted of the water which had been made wine, not knowing where it came from, though the attendants who had drawn it knew, he called the bridegroom and said to him.

and said to those who were selling doves. "Take these things away! Make not my Father's house a house of trade!

But he was speaking about the temple of his body; and when the disciples recalled what he had said,

after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the Scripture and the word which Jesus had said.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him. "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher sent from God; for no man can do these signs which you are continually doing, unless God is with him."

"How can this be?" said Nicodemus in reply.

"Are you the Teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" said Jesus.

Then some of John's disciples got into a controversy with a Jew in regard to purification; so they came to John and said to him.

"Rabbi, see! The man who was with you on the other side of Jordan, and to whom you yourself have borne testimony, is now baptizing, and everybody is coming to him."

In reply John said: "A man cannot obtain anything unless it has been granted to him from heaven.

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but have been sent before him.'

Whoever does receive it has set his seal that God is true.

Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"

Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)

"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and then come here."

"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her,

"Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."

Jesus said to her, "I who am now talking to you, am he."

They left the city and set out to go to him.

"Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."

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

Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman.

"We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."

Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."

"Sir," said the king's officer, "come down before my little boy dies."

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

"Rise," said Jesus, "take up your bed and go walking away."

"Who is it," they asked, "that said to you, 'take up your bed and go walking away'?"

Afterward Jesus found him in the Temple, and said to him. "Look! You have become well. Do not go on sinning, lest a worse thing befall you."

Then Jesus walked up the hills and sat down there with his disciples. Now the Jewish feast, the Passover, was at hand.

he said to Philip, "Where shall we buy bread for these people to eat?"

He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he intended to do.

One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon, said to him.

"Make the men sit down," said Jesus. The ground was covered with thick grass; so the men sat down, in numbers about five thousand. "of righteousness, because I am going to my Father, and you will no longer see me;

and when they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Gather up the fragments that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

So when the people saw the sign which he had performed, they said, "This is in the truth the Prophet who is to come into the world."

but he said to them, "It is I, be not afraid."

The crowd that remained on the other side of the sea had seen that there was only one small boat there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away by themselves.

When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, "Rabbi, when did you get here?"

"Labor not for food which perishes, but for the food that endures eternal life??hat which the Son of man will give you; for on the Father??od??as set his seal."

The they said to him. "What sign, then, are you performing, so that we may see it and believe in you? What work are you doing?

"In solemn truth I tell you," said Jesus in reply, "Moses did not give you the bread out of heaven, but my Father does give you the true bread out of heaven;

"Ah, Sir," said they, "evermore give us this bread."

Then the Jews began to find fault with Jesus, because he said, "I am the bread which comes down out of heaven," and they kept asking.

"I tell you solemnly," said Jesus, "that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you have no life in you.

So many of his disciples, when they heard it, said: "This teaching is unbelievable! Who can listen to him?"

Jesus, conscious within himself that his disciples were finding fault with him about his teaching, said to them.

In reply Jesus said to them. "Have I not chosen you, the Twelve? And yet even of you one is an enemy."

his brothers said to him. "Leave here and go into Judea, so that your disciples also may behold the works which you are doing.

"My time is not yet come," said Jesus, "but your time is always at hand.

The Jews were amazed. They said, "How does this fellow know the sacred writings when he has never learned them?" "I am not asking that thou wilt take them out of the world, but that thou wilt protect them from the Evil One.

In reply Jesus said to them; "My teaching is not mine, but is his who sent me. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world."

So Jesus cried aloud as he was teaching in the Temple, and said: "You both know me and you know where I am from; and I am not come on my own authority, but he who sent me is trustworthy, and him you do not know.

Then Jesus said to them. "Still for a little longer I am with you, and then I am going my way to him who sent me.

Then the Jews said to one another. "Where does this fellow intend to go, so that we shall not find him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and to teach the Greeks, is he?

"If any man thirst let him come to me and drink. From the heart of him who believes in me will flow, as the Scripture said, rivers of living water."

Now he said this concerning the Spirit whom those who believed in him should receive. For the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Other said, "He is the Christ." But others were saying. "Surely the Christ is not to come out of Galilee, is he?

Nicodemus, one of their number, he who had formerly visited Jesus, said to them,

In answer they said to him. "You are not from Galilee, are you? Search for yourself, and see that from Galilee arises no prophet."

At dawn, however, he came back to the Temple, where the people came to him in crowds. He had taken his seat and was teaching them,

when the Scribes and Pharisees had brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They made her stand in the middle of the court, and said to him.

(This they said to tempt him, so that they could bring a charge against him.)

But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

Then Jesus raised himself up and said to her. "Woman, where are they? Has no man condemn you,"

"No one, Sir," she answered. "Neither do I condemned you," said Jesus. "Go, and never sin again."

Once more Jesus addressed them. "I am the light of the world," he said; "He who follows me shall not walk in the darkness, but he shall have the Light of life."

Then said the Pharisees to him. "You are bearing testimony to yourself; your testimony is not true."

In reply Jesus said to them. "Even if I do bear testimony to concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from, or where I am going.

He said these words in the Treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple; yet no one arrested him, because his hour was not yet come.

Then again he said them. "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I am going, you cannot come."

Then the Jews said: "He will not kill himself, will he? Is that why he says, 'Where I am going you cannot come'?"

And he said to them. "You are from below. I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

"That is why I said that you would die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins."