This, the first of the signs of his mission, Jesus showed at Cana in Galilee. By it he showed his greatness, and his disciples believed in him.

After this Jesus went down to Capernaum with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they stayed there for a few days.

Then the Jews addressed him and said, "What sign have you to show us, for acting in this way?"

Jesus answered, "Destroy this sanctuary, and I will raise it in three days!"

The Jews said, "It has taken forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and are you going to raise it in three days?"

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.

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."

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet ignorant of this?

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.

After this Jesus went into the country of Judea with his disciples, and stayed there with them and baptized.

It is the bridegroom who has the bride; but the bridegroom's friend who stands outside and listens for his voice is very glad when he hears the bridegroom speak. So this happiness of mine is now complete.

Are you a greater man than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with his sons and his flocks?"

Jesus answered, "Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

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."

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

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

This second sign Jesus showed after coming back from Judea to Galilee.

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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?"

This was why the Jews used to persecute Jesus, because he did things like this on the Sabbath.

On account of this the Jews were all the more eager to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath but actually called God his Father, thus putting himself on an equality with God.

Do not be surprised at this, for the time is coming when all who are in their graves will listen to his voice,

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

After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, or Tiberias, and a great crowd followed him,

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

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

and got into a boat and started across the sea for Capernaum. By this time it was dark, and Jesus had not yet joined them;

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.

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 led the Jews to dispute with one another. They said, "How can he give us his flesh to eat?"

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."

Jesus said all this while he was teaching in the synagogue at Capernaum.

Many of his disciples on hearing it said, "This is a harsh teaching! Who can listen to it?"

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

And he added, "This is why I said to you, 'No one can come to me unless he is enabled to do so by the Father.' "

In consequence of this many of his disciples drew back and would not go about with him any longer.

After this Jesus went from place to place in Galilee, for he would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were making efforts to kill him.

As for you, go up to the festival; I am not going up to this festival as yet, for it is not quite time for me to go."

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

Some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Is not this the man they want to kill?

But then, we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he is from."

But many of the people believed in him, and said, "Will the Christ show more signs when he comes than this man has shown?"

He meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive??or the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

So some of the people, when they heard these words, said, "This is certainly the Prophet!"

Others said, "This is the Christ!" But they rejoined, "What! Is the Christ to come from Galilee?

He said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not belong to this world.

As he said this, many believed in him.

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

As he said this he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and he put the clay on the man's eyes,

Then his neighbors and people who had formerly seen him begging, said, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Then some of the Pharisees said, "This man does not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinful man show such signs as this?" And there was a division of opinion among them.

and asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"

His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind.

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already made an agreement that if anyone acknowledged Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogues.

So they again summoned the man who had been blind, and they said to him, "Give God the praise. This man we know is a sinful man."

We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man came from."

The man answered, "There is something very strange about this! You do not know where he came from, and yet he has made me able to see!

It was never heard of in this world that anyone made a man born blind able to see.

If this man were not from God, he could not do anything."

And Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge men, that those who cannot see may see, and that those who can see may become blind."

Some Pharisees who were present heard this, and they said to him, "Then are we blind too?"

This was the figure Jesus used in speaking to them, but they did not understand what he meant by it.

I have other sheep too that do not belong to this fold. I must lead them too, and they will obey my voice, and they will all become one flock, with one shepherd.

This is why the Father loves me, because I am giving my life, but giving it to take it back again.

In consequence of this they again tried to arrest him, and he withdrew out of their reach.

And people came to him in great numbers, and they said of him, "John did not show any sign in proof of his mission, but all that he said about this man was true."

So the sisters sent this message to Jesus: "Master, your friend is sick."

When Jesus received it he said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but is for the honor of God, that through it the Son of God may be honored."

Jesus answered, "Is not the day twelve hours long? If a man travels by day he will not stumble, for he can see the light of this world;

He told them this, and then he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who opened the eyes of that blind man, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

Jesus said, "Move the stone away." The dead man's sister, Martha, said to him, "Master, by this time he is decaying, for he has been dead four days."

though I knew that you always listen to me. But I have said this for the sake of the people that are standing around me that they may believe that you have made me your messenger."

After saying this he called out in a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

Then the high priests and the Pharisees called a meeting of the council, and they said, "What are we to do about the fact that this man is showing so many signs?

Now he was not self-moved in saying this, but as high priest for that year he was inspired to say that Jesus was to die for the nation??52 and not only for the nation but also for the purpose of uniting the scattered children of God.

In consequence of this, Jesus did not appear in public among the Jews any longer, but he left that neighborhood and went to the district near the desert, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

"Why was this perfume not sold for sixty dollars, and the money given to the poor?"

But he did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief and when he had charge of the purse he used to take what was put in it.

His disciples did not understand this at the time but after Jesus was glorified they remembered that this was said of him in Scripture and that it had happened to him.

and they went to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and made this request of him: "Sir, we want to see Jesus."

Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.

Now my heart is troubled; what am I to say? Father, save me from this trial! And yet it was for this very purpose that I have come to this trial.

The judgment of this world is now in progress. Its evil genius is now to be expelled,

He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.

The crowd answered, "We have learned from the Law that the Christ is to remain here forever. So how can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"

Isaiah said this because he saw his glory; it was of him that he spoke.

Before the Passover Festival began, Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father, but he had loved those who were his own in the world, and he loved them to the last.

So at supper??he devil having by this time put the thought of betraying Jesus into the mind of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son??3 Jesus, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,

Now that you have this knowledge, you will be blessed if you act upon it.

After Jesus had said this he was greatly moved and said solemnly, "I tell you, it is one of you that will betray me!"

Jesus answered, "It is the one to whom I am going to give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish." So he dipped the piece of bread and took it and gave it to Judas, Simon Iscariot's son.

But no one else at the table knew what he meant by telling him this,

By this they will all know that you are my disciples??y your love for one another."

"I have told you this while I am still staying with you,

I have told you all this so that you may have the happiness that I have had, and your happiness may be complete.

But they will do all this to you on my account, because they do not understand him who sent me.

"I have told you this to keep you from faltering.

They will do this because they do not know the Father or me.

But I have told you about these things in order that when the time comes for them to happen, you may remember that I told you of them. I did not tell you this at first because I was still staying with you.