“What then?” they asked him. “Are you Elijah?”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet?”

“No,” he answered.

“Who are you, then?” they asked. “We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What can you tell us about yourself?”

Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.

So they asked him, “Why then do you baptize if you aren’t the Messiah, or Elijah, or the Prophet?”

When Jesus turned and noticed them following Him, He asked them, “What are you looking for?”

They said to Him, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are You staying?”

“Come and you’ll see,” He replied. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they stayed with Him that day. It was about 10 in the morning.

When the wine ran out, Jesus’ mother told Him, “They don’t have any wine.”

“Fill the jars with water,” Jesus told them. So they filled them to the brim.

Then He said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the chief servant.” And they did.

After this, He went down to Capernaum, together with His mother, His brothers, and His disciples, and they stayed there only a few days.

So when He was raised from the dead, His disciples remembered that He had said this. And they believed the Scripture and the statement Jesus had made.

While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Festival, many trusted in His name when they saw the signs He was doing.

So they came to John and told him, “Rabbi, the One you testified about, and who was with you across the Jordan, is baptizing—and everyone is flocking to Him.”

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

They left the town and made their way to Him.

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him,” they answered.

“Who is this man who told you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?” they asked.

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

You pore over the Scriptures because you think you have eternal life in them, yet they testify about Me.

And a huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick.

“There’s a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish—but what are they for so many?”

Then Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.”

There was plenty of grass in that place, so they sat down. The men numbered about 5,000.

Then Jesus took the loaves, and after giving thanks He distributed them to those who were seated—so also with the fish, as much as they wanted.

When they were full, He told His disciples, “Collect the leftovers so that nothing is wasted.”

So they collected them and filled 12 baskets with the pieces from the five barley loaves that were left over by those who had eaten.

When the people saw the sign He had done, they said, “This really is the Prophet who was to come into the world!”

Therefore, when Jesus knew that they were about to come and take Him by force to make Him king, He withdrew again to the mountain by Himself.

After they had rowed about three or four miles, they saw Jesus walking on the sea. He was coming near the boat, and they were afraid.

Then they were willing to take Him on board, and at once the boat was at the shore where they were heading.

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat. They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone.

Some boats from Tiberias came near the place where they ate the bread after the Lord gave thanks.

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

When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did You get here?”

“What can we do to perform the works of God?” they asked.

“What sign then are You going to do so we may see and believe You?” they asked. “What are You going to perform?

Then they said, “Sir, give us this bread always!”

They were saying, “Isn’t this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can He now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?”

It is written in the Prophets: And they will all be taught by God. Everyone who has listened to and learned from the Father comes to Me—

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

Therefore, when many of His disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard! Who can accept it?”

Still, nobody was talking publicly about Him because they feared the Jews.

Some of the people of Jerusalem were saying, “Isn’t this the man they want to kill?

Yet, look! He’s speaking publicly and they’re saying nothing to Him. Can it be true that the authorities know He is the Messiah?

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

When some from the crowd heard these words, they said, “This really is the Prophet!”

“You aren’t from Galilee too, are you?” they replied. “Investigate and you will see that no prophet arises from Galilee.”

“Teacher,” they said to Him, “this woman was caught in the act of committing adultery.

They asked this to trap Him, in order that they might have evidence to accuse Him.

Jesus stooped down and started writing on the ground with His finger.

When they persisted in questioning Him, He stood up and said to them, “The one without sin among you should be the first to throw a stone at her.”

When they heard this, they left one by one, starting with the older men. Only He was left, with the woman in the center.

When Jesus stood up, He said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”

Then they asked Him, “Where is Your Father?”

“You know neither Me nor My Father,” Jesus answered. “If you knew Me, you would also know My Father.”

“Who are You?” they questioned.

“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them.

They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

“Our father is Abraham!” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.

You’re doing what your father does.”

“We weren’t born of sexual immorality,” they said. “We have one Father—God.”

At that, they picked up stones to throw at Him. But Jesus was hidden and went out of the temple complex.

Therefore they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

“Where is He?” they asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”

“He’s a prophet,” he said.

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, he would be banned from the synagogue.

So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner!”

Then they asked him, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”

They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’ disciples.

“You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.

When Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, He found him and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

They will never follow a stranger; instead they will run away from him, because they don’t recognize the voice of strangers.”

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance.

“I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep, and they know Me,

But I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish—ever! No one will snatch them out of My hand.

Then they were trying again to seize Him, yet He eluded their grasp.

Jesus, however, was speaking about his death, but they thought He was speaking about natural sleep.

The Jews who were with her in the house consoling her saw that Mary got up quickly and went out. So they followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to cry there.

“Where have you put him?” He asked.

“Lord,” they told Him, “come and see.”

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised His eyes and said, “Father, I thank You that You heard Me.

I know that You always hear Me, but because of the crowd standing here I said this, so they may believe You sent Me.”

So from that day on they plotted to kill Him.

They were looking for Jesus and asking one another as they stood in the temple complex: “What do you think? He won’t come to the festival, will He?”

The chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it so they could arrest Him.

So they gave a dinner for Him there; Martha was serving them, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with Him.

Then a large crowd of the Jews learned He was there. They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus the one He had raised from the dead.

they took palm branches and went out to meet Him. They kept shouting: “Hosanna! He who comes in the name of the Lord is the blessed One—the King of Israel!”

His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.

This is also why the crowd met Him, because they heard He had done this sign.

So they came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

Even though He had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in Him.

This is why they were unable to believe, because Isaiah also said: