Through him all things were made, and apart from him nothing was made that has been made.

In him was life, and that life brought light to humanity.

He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

This was the true light that enlightens every person by his coming into the world.

The Word became flesh and lived among us. We gazed on his glory, the kind of glory that belongs to the Father's unique Son, who is full of grace and truth.

I didn't recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he might be revealed to Israel."

I have seen this and have testified that this is the Son of God."

He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Jesus told him, "Do you believe because I told you that I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than that."

On the third day of that week there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

"How does that concern us, dear lady?" Jesus asked her. "My time hasn't come yet."

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will consume me."

After he had been raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this. So they believed the Scripture and the statement that Jesus had made.

While Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Passover Festival, many people believed in him because they saw the signs that he was doing.

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

Don't be astonished that I told you, "All of you must be born from above.'

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Nicodemus asked him, "How can that be?"

so that everyone who believes in him would have eternal life.

"For this is how God loved the world: He gave his unique Son so that everyone who believes in him would not be lost but have eternal life.

Because God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world would be saved through him.

Everyone who practices wickedness hates the light and does not come to the light, so that his actions may not be exposed.

But whoever does what is true comes to the light, so that it may become evident that his actions have God's approval."

You yourselves are my witnesses that I said, "I am not the Messiah, but I have been sent ahead of him.'

It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

The person who has accepted his testimony has acknowledged that God is truthful.

Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life."

The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water."

The woman told him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet!

Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem."

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

But he told them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

You say, don't you, "In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

The one who harvests is already receiving his wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who harvests may rejoice together.

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive.

Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family.

Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

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

The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

The man went off and told the Jewish leaders that it was Jesus who had made him well.

The Father loves the Son and shows him everything he is doing, and he will show him even greater actions than these, so that you may be amazed.

so that everyone may honor the Son as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

and will come out those who have done what is good to the resurrection that leads to life, and those who have practiced what is evil to the resurrection that ends in condemnation.

There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.

I myself do not accept human testimony, but I am saying these things so that you may be saved.

That man John was a lamp that burns and brightly shines, and for a while you were willing to rejoice in his light.

"But I have a greater testimony than John's, because the actions that the Father has given me to complete the very actions that I am doing testify on my behalf that the Father has sent me.

You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.

I know that you do not have the love of God in you.

How can you believe when you accept each other's praise and do not look for the praise that comes from the only God?

Do not suppose that I will be the one to accuse you before the Father. Your accuser is Moses, on whom you have set your hope,

After this, Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (that is, to Tiberias).

A large crowd kept following him because they had seen the signs that he was performing by healing the sick.

When Jesus looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming toward him, he asked Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

When they were completely satisfied, Jesus told his disciples, "Collect the pieces that are left over so that nothing is wasted."

When the people saw the sign that he had done, they kept saying, "Truly this is the Prophet who was to come into the world!"

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into these boats and went to Capernaum to look for Jesus.

Do not work for food that perishes but for food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal on him."

So they asked him, "What sign are you going to do so that we may see it and believe in you? What actions are you performing?

I told you that you have seen me, yet you don't believe.

And this is the will of the one who sent me, that I should not lose anything that he has given me, but should raise it to life on the last day.

This is my Father's will: That everyone who sees the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day."

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who comes from God. This one has seen the Father.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die.

I'm the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he'll live forever. And the bread I will give for the life of the world is my flesh."

This is the bread that came down from heaven, not the kind that your ancestors ate. They died, but the one who eats this bread will live forever."

But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

It's the Spirit who gives life; the flesh accomplishes nothing. The words that I've spoken to you are spirit and life.

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

Besides, we have believed and remain convinced that you are the Holy One of God."

So his brothers told him, "You should leave this place and go to Judea, so that your disciples can see the actions that you're doing,

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify against it that its actions are evil.

The Jewish leaders kept looking for him at the festival, asking, "Where is that man?"

Moses gave you circumcision not that it is from Moses, but from the Patriarchs and so you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man perfectly well on the Sabbath?

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

Then the Jewish leaders asked one another, "Where does this man intend to go that we won't be able to find him? Surely he's not going to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is he?

What does this statement mean that he said, "You'll look for me but won't find me,' and, "Where I am, you cannot come'?"

But some were saying, "The Messiah doesn't come from Galilee, does he? Doesn't the Scripture say that the Messiah is from David's family and from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?"

The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like that!"

But this mob that does not know the Law they're under a curse!"

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

They said this to test him, so that they might have a charge against him. But Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.

In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two people is valid.

So the Jewish leaders were asking, "He isn't going to kill himself, is he? Is that why he said, "You cannot come where I'm going'?"