It was he that was with God in the beginning.

It was by him that life came into existence, and that life was the light of mankind.

He came to give testimony, to testify to the light, so that everyone might come to believe in it through him.

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

So afterward when he had risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the passage of Scripture and what Jesus had said.

Now when he was at Jerusalem, at the Passover Festival, many, when they saw the signs that he showed, came to believe in him.

This man went to Jesus one night, and said to him, "Master, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God, for no one can show the signs that you do, unless God is with him."

Do not wonder at my telling you that you must be born over again from above.

The wind blows wherever it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is the way with everyone who owes his birth to the Spirit."

Nicodemus said to him, "How can that be?"

If you will not believe the earthly things that I have told you, how can you believe the heavenly things I have to tell?

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that no one who believes in him should be lost, but that they should all have eternal life.

For God did not send his Son into the world to pass judgment upon the world, but that through him the world might be saved.

And the basis of the judgment is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were wicked, men have loved the darkness more than the light.

But everyone who is living the truth will come to the light, to show that his actions have been performed in dependence upon God.

You will bear me witness that I said, 'I am not the Christ; I have been sent in advance of him.'

It is to what he has seen and heard that he gives testimony, and yet no one accepts his testimony.

Whoever does accept it has thereby acknowledged that God is true.

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John??2 though it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples??3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph,

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, "If you knew what God has to give, and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

but anyone who drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become a spring of water within him, bubbling up for eternal life."

The woman said to him, "Give me this water, sir, so that I may never be thirsty, nor have to come all this way to draw water."

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

Our forefathers worshiped God on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that the place where people must worship God is at Jerusalem."

The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming??e who is called the Christ. When he comes, he will tell us everything!"

So the disciples said to one another, "Do you suppose that someone has brought him something to eat?"

The reaper is already being paid and gathering the harvest for eternal life, so that the sower may be glad with the reaper.

Many of the Samaritans in that town came to believe in him because of the testimony the woman gave when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did!"

and they said to the woman, "It is no longer because of your statement that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he is really the Savior of the world."

for he himself declared that a prophet is not honored in his own country.

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

While he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him that his boy was going to live.

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

Jesus saw him lying there, and finding that he had been in this condition for a long time, said to him, "Do you want to get well?"

They asked him, "Who was it that said to you, 'Pick it up and walk'?"

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

For the Father loves the Son and lets him see everything that he himself is doing, and he will let him see greater deeds than these, to make you wonder.

so that all men may honor the Son just as much as they honor the Father. Whoever refuses to honor the Son refuses to honor the Father who sent him.

It is someone else who testifies to me, and I know that the testimony that he gives about me is true.

But the testimony that I accept is not from any man; I am only saying this that you may be saved.

He was the lamp that burned and shone, and you were ready to be gladdened for a while by his light.

But I have higher testimony than John's, for the things that my Father has intrusted to me to accomplish, the very things that I am doing, are proof that my Father has sent me,

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

but I know well that you have not the love of God in your hearts.

Yet how can you believe in me, when you accept honor from one another, instead of seeking the honor that comes from the one God?

Do not suppose that I will accuse you to the Father. Moses is your accuser??oses, on whom you have fixed your hopes!

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for it was about me that he wrote.

So Jesus, raising his eyes and seeing that a great crowd was coming up to him, said to Philip, "Where can we buy food for these people to eat?"

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

When they were satisfied, he said to his disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, so that nothing may be wasted."

So they picked them up, and they filled twelve baskets with pieces of the five barley loaves that were left after the people had eaten.

When the people saw the signs that he showed, they said, "This is really the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

So Jesus, seeing that they meant to come and carry him off to make him king, retired again to the hill by himself.

Next day the people who had stayed on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only one boat there, and that Jesus had not embarked in it with his disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

So when the people saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were any longer there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum in search of him.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, it is not because of the signs you have seen that you have come in search of me, but because you ate that bread and had all you wanted of it.

You must not work for the food that perishes, but for that which lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has authorized him to do so."

Jesus answered them, "The work God has for you is to believe in the messenger that he has sent to you."

for it is God's bread that comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world."

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

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. No one who comes to me will ever be hungry, and no one who believes in me will ever be thirsty.

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never refuse anyone who comes to me,

And the purpose of him who has sent me is this, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but should raise them to life on the Last Day.

For it is the purpose of my Father 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."

The Jews complained of him for saying, "I am the bread that has come out of heaven,"

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father, except him who is from God; he has seen the Father.

I am the bread that gives life.

But here is bread that comes down out of heaven, and no one who eats it will ever die.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the world's life is my own flesh!"

This is the bread that has come down out of heaven??ot like that which your forefathers ate and yet died. Whoever lives on this bread will live forever."

But Jesus, knowing that his disciples were complaining about this, said to them, "Does this stagger you?

The Spirit is what gives life; flesh is of no use at all. The things that I have said to you are spirit and they are life.

and we believe and are satisfied that you are the Holy One of God."

It is impossible for the world to hate you, but it does hate me for testifying that its ways are wrong.

That was what he told them, and he stayed on in Galilee.

and there was a great deal of muttering about him among the crowds, some saying that he was a good man, and others that he was not, but was imposing on the people.

This astonished the Jews. "How is it that this man can read?" they said, "when he has never gone to school?"

Yet Moses gave you the rite of circumcision??ot that it began with Moses but with your forefathers??nd you practice it even on the Sabbath.

And here he is speaking publicly, and they say nothing to him! Can the authorities really have found that he is the Christ?

Then the Jews said to one another, "Where is he going, that we shall not find him? Is he going to our people scattered among the Greeks, and will he teach the Greeks?

Do not the Scriptures say that the Christ is to spring from the descendants of David and to come from the village of Bethlehem where David lived?"

They answered, "Are you from Galilee too? Study and you will find that no prophet is to appear from Galilee."

Why, in your own Law it is stated that the testimony of two persons is valid.

So the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself, and is that why he says, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

That is why I said to you that you would die in the midst of your sins, for unless you believe that I am what I say, you will die in the midst of your sins."

"Why do I even talk to you at all? I have a great deal to say about you and to condemn in you, yet he who sent me is truthful, and the things that I say to the world are things that I have learned from him."

They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father.

So Jesus said, "When you lift the Son of Man up in the air, then you will know that I am what I say, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has instructed me.

I know that you are descended from Abraham, yet you want to kill me, because there is no room in your hearts for my teaching.

It is what I have seen in the presence of my Father that I tell, and it is what you have heard from your father that you do."

But instead you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth he has heard from God. Abraham would not have done that.

Why is it that you do not understand what I say? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my message.

Whoever is sprung from God listens to God's words. The reason you refuse to listen is that you are not sprung from God."

The Jews answered, "Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed?"

The Jews said to him, "Now we are sure that you are possessed! Abraham is dead and so are the prophets, and yet you say, 'If anyone observes my teaching, he will never know what death is!'

At that, the Jews picked up stones to throw at him, but he disappeared and made his way out of the Temple.

His disciples asked him, "Master, for whose sin was this man born blind? For his own, or for that of his parents?"