"What then?" they asked. "Are you Elijah?" "No," he said, "I am not." "Are you 'the Prophet'?" He answered, "No."

"I," he answered, "am--'The voice of one crying aloud in the Wilderness--"straighten the way of the Lord"', as the Prophet Isaiah said."

It was of him that I spoke when I said 'After me there is coming a man who is now before me, for he was ever First.'

I myself did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, he said to me 'He upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining upon him--he it is who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

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

He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him: "We have found the Messiah!" (a word which means 'Christ,' or 'Consecrated'.)

Then he brought him to Jesus. Fixing his eyes on him, Jesus said: "You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Kephas" (which means 'Peter,' or 'Rock').

The following day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. He found Philip, and said to him: "Follow me."

He found Nathanael and said to him: "We have found him of whom Moses wrote in the Law, and of whom the Prophets also wrote--Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph's son!"

When Jesus saw Nathanael coming towards him, he said: "Here is a true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!"

And, when the wine ran short, his mother said to him: "They have no wine left."

His mother said to the servants: "Do whatever he tells you."

Jesus said to the servants: "Fill the water-jars with water;"

He called the bridegroom and said to him: "Every one puts good wine on the table first, and inferior wine afterwards, when his guests have drunk freely; but you have kept back the good wine till now!"

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

His disciples remembered that Scripture said--'Zeal for thy House will consume me.'

Afterwards, when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the passage of Scripture, and the words which Jesus had spoken.

This man came to Jesus by night, and said to him: "Rabbi, we know that you are a Teacher come from God; for no one could give such signs as you are giving, unless God were with him."

And the disciples came to John and said: "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, and to whom you have yourself borne testimony--he, also, is baptizing, and everybody is going to him."

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

He left Judea, and set out again for Galilee.

Jacob's Spring was there, and Jesus, being tired after his journey, sat down beside the spring, just as he was. It was then about mid-day.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to her- - "Give me some to drink,"

"You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep," she said; "where did you get that 'living water?'

"Give me this water, Sir," said the woman, "so that I may not be thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw water."

"Go and call your husband," said Jesus, "and then come back."

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

So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people:

"Can any one have brought him anything to eat?" the disciples said to one another.

And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

But far more came to believe in him on account of what he said himself,

And they said to the woman: "It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world."

"Sir," said the officer, "come down before my child dies." And Jesus answered: "Go, your son is living."

The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;

So he asked them at what time the boy began to get better. "It was yesterday, about one o'clock," they said, "that the fever left him."

By this the father knew that it was at the very time when Jesus had said to him 'Your son is living'; and he himself, with all his household, believed in Jesus.

Jesus saw the man lying there, and, finding that he had been in this state a long time, said to him: "Do you wish to be cured?"

"Stand up," said Jesus, "take up your mat, and walk about."

Now it was the Sabbath. So the Jews said to the man who had been cured: "This is the Sabbath; you must not carry your mat."

"The man who cured me," he answered, "said to me 'Take up your mat and walk about.'"

"Who was it," they asked, "that said to you 'Take up your mat and walk about'?"

Afterwards Jesus found the man in the Temple Courts, and said to him: "You are cured now; do not sin again, for fear that something worse may befall you."

Jesus went up the hill, and sat down there with his disciples.

Looking up, and noticing that a great crowd was coming towards him, Jesus said to Philip: "Where are we to buy bread for these people to eat?"

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

"There is a boy here," said Andrew, another of his disciples, Simon Peter's brother,

"Make the people sit down," said Jesus. It was a grassy spot; so the men, who numbered about five thousand, sat down,

When they were satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples: "Collect the broken pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

When the people saw the signs which Jesus gave, they said: "This is certainly 'the Prophet who was to come' into the world."

And, getting into a boat, began to cross to Capernaum. By this time darkness had set in, and Jesus had not yet come back to them;

When they had rowed three or four miles, they caught sight of him walking on the water and approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

But Jesus said to them: "It is I; do not be afraid!"

The people who remained on the further side of the Sea had seen that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone into it with his disciples, but that they had left without him.

Some boats, however, had come from Tiberias, from near the spot where they had eaten the bread after the Master had said the thanksgiving.

And, when they found him on the other side of the Sea, they said: "When did you get here, Rabbi?"

Work, not for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for Immortal Life, which the Son of Man will give you; for upon him the Father--God himself--has set the seal of his approval."

"I am the Life-giving Bread," Jesus said to them; "he that comes to me shall never be hungry, and he that believes in me shall never thirst again.

But, as I have said already, you have seen me, and yet you do not believe in me.

"Do not murmur among yourselves," said Jesus in reply.

It is said in the Prophets--'And they shall all be taught by God.' Every one who is taught by the Father and learns from him comes to me.

All this Jesus said in a Synagogue, when he was teaching in Capernaum.

On hearing it, many of his disciples said: "This is harsh doctrine! Who can bear to listen to it?"

But Jesus, aware that his disciples were murmuring about it, said to them:

So Jesus said to the Twelve: "Do you also wish to leave me?"

His brothers said to him: "Leave this part of the country, and go into Judea, so that your disciples, as well as we, may see the work that you are doing.

So, in reply, Jesus said: "My teaching is not my own; it is his who sent me.

Therefore, Jesus, as he was teaching in the Temple Courts, raised his voice and said: "Yes; you know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own authority, but he who sent me may be trusted; and him you do not know.

Many of the people, however, believed in him. "When the Christ comes," they said, "will he give more signs of his mission than this man has given?"

On which Jesus said: "I shall be with you but a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.

Some of the people, when they heard these words, said:

"This is certainly 'the Prophet'!"; others said: "This is the Christ!"; but some asked: "What! does the Christ come from Galilee?

Is not it said in Scripture that it is of the race of David, and from Bethlehem, the village to which David belonged, that the Christ is to come?"

But one of their number, Nicodemus, who before this had been to see Jesus, said to them:

Jesus again addressed the people. "I am the Light of the World," he said. "He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of Life."

Why, in your own Law it is said that the testimony of two persons is trustworthy.

Jesus again spoke to the people. "I am going away," he said, "and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin; you cannot come where I am going."

"Who are you?" they asked. "Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?" said Jesus.

And you find out the Truth, and the Truth will set you free."

"We are descendants of Abraham," was their answer, "and have never yet been in slavery to any one. What do you mean by saying 'you will be set free'?"

You are doing what your own father does." "We are not bastards," they said, "we have one Father--God himself."

"Go," he said, "and wash your eyes in the Bath of Siloam" (a word which means 'Messenger'). So the man went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

Upon this his neighbors, and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed: "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

"Yes," some said, "it is"; while others said: "No, but he is like him." The man himself said: "I am he."

"How did you get your sight, then?" they asked.

"The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight."

Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and gave him his sight.

So the Pharisees also questioned the man as to how he had gained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he answered, "and I washed them, and I can see."

"The man cannot be from God," said some of the Pharisees, "for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible," retorted others, "for a bad man to give signs like this?"

So there was a difference of opinion among them, and they again questioned the man; "What do you yourself say about him, for it is to you that he has given sight?"

The Jews, however, refused to believe that he had been blind and had gained his sight, until they had called his parents and questioned them.

But how it is that he can see now we do not know; nor do we know who it was that gave him his sight. Ask him--he is old enough- -he will tell you about himself."

This was why his parents said 'He is old enough; ask him.'

So the Jews again called the man who had been blind, and said to him: "Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man."

"What did he do to you?" they asked. "How did he give you your sight?"

"Well," the man replied, "this is very strange; you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has given me my sight!

Since the world began, such a thing was never heard of as any one's giving sight to a person born blind.

"Not only have you seen him," said Jesus; "but it is he who is now speaking to you."

"Then, Sir, I do believe," said the man, bowing to the ground before him;

Hearing this, some of the Pharisees who were with him said: "Then are we blind too?"

Many of them said: "He is possessed by a demon and is mad; why do you listen to him?"