“I baptize with water,” John answered them. “Someone stands among you, but you don’t know Him.

These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.

And John testified, saying -- 'I have seen the Spirit coming down, as a dove, out of heaven, and it remained on him;

and I did not know him, but he who sent me to baptize with water, He said to me, On whomsoever thou mayest see the Spirit coming down, and remaining on him, this is he who is baptizing with the Holy Spirit;

"Come and you shall see," He said. So they went and saw where He was staying, and they remained and spent that day with Him. It was then about ten o'clock in the morning.

(Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.)

and he saith to him, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, henceforth ye shall see the heaven opened, and the messengers of God going up and coming down upon the Son of Man.'

Then on the third day [i.e., since Jesus' conversation with Nathaniel. See 1:47], a wedding took place in Cana in Galilee. [Note: This was a small town near Nazareth]. Jesus' mother was there

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

After this he went down to Capernaum, he, and his mother, and his brethren, and his disciples: and they continued there not many days.

and having made a whip of small cords He drove them all, out of the temple; with the sheep and the oxen: and He poured out the changers money, and threw down the tables.

To those who sold the doves, he said, "Take these things out of here! Don't make my Father's house a marketplace!"

Jesus answered, and said unto them - Take down this shrine, and, in three days, will I raise it.

Don't marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born anew.'

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear its sound, but you don’t know where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.”

“Are you a teacher of Israel and don’t know these things?” Jesus replied.

Most certainly I tell you, we speak that which we know, and testify of that which we have seen, and you don't receive our witness.

If I have told you about things that happen on earth and you don’t believe, how will you believe if I tell you about things of heaven?

And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.

But whoever practices truth [and does what is right—morally, ethically, spiritually] comes to the Light, so that his works may be plainly shown to be what they are—accomplished in God [divinely prompted, done with God’s help, in dependence on Him].”

So He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon).

For His disciples had gone off into the city to buy food—

“Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."

“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said.

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

You worship that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

Just about then Jesus' disciples returned [from town], and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. [Note: It was not customary for a Jewish male to engage a woman in extended conversation in that day, much less a stranger, and certainly not a Samaritan], yet no one said [to Him], "What are you looking for?" or "Why are you talking to her?"

Then the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and began telling the people,

Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?

So the people left the city and were coming to Him.

But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

“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.

I sent you [disciples] to harvest [a crop] that you did not work on; other people have done the work and you have reaped the results of their work." [Note: This is probably an allusion to the preliminary work of preaching done by John, the Immerser, with results occurring under the preaching of the apostles].

But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.

When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also went to the feast.

When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.

In them a multitude of the sick, blind, lame, withered, were lying down.

For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.

Jesus seeing him lying down, and knowing that he already has much time, says to him; Do you wish to be whole?

The impotent man answered him, Sir, I have no man, when the water is troubled, to put me into the pool: but while I am coming, another steppeth down before me.

After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him, "Look, you have become well. Don't sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you."

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.

Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,

And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

I don’t receive man’s testimony, but I say these things so that you may be saved.

You don’t have His word living in you, because you don’t believe the One He sent.

I don't receive glory from men.

But I know you, that you don't have God's love in yourselves.

I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

How can you believe? While accepting glory from one another, you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God.

"Don't think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

But if you don’t believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

And Jesus went up on the mountainside and sat down there with His disciples.

So Jesus, looking up and seeing a large crowd coming to Him, said to Philip [Note: He was one of the apostles, whose home town was at nearby Bethsaida. See 1:44], "Where are we going to buy [enough] bread, so that this crowd can eat?"

And Jesus said, Make the men sit down. Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, in number about five thousand.

And Jesus took the loaves; and when he had given thanks, he distributed to the disciples, and the disciples to them that were set down; and likewise of the fishes as much as they would.

Accordingly they gathered them up; and with the fragments of the five barley loaves--the broken portions that remained over after they had done eating--they filled twelve baskets.

The men therefore, having seen the sign which Jesus had done, said, This is truly the prophet which is coming into the world.

And when even was now come, his disciples went down unto the sea,

But He said to them, “It is I. Don’t be afraid!”

(However, meanwhile, some other [small] boats had come from Tiberias [i.e., a small town on the west side of the lake] near where they had eaten bread after the Lord had given thanks).

Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.”

Then said Jesus, "What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the real bread from heaven ??33 for the bread of God is what comes down from heaven and gives life to the world."

For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.

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

For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?

Therefore Jesus answered them, "Don't murmur among yourselves.

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat of it, and not die.

This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.

I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.

Jesus therefore said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you don't have life in yourselves.

This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

Therefore Jesus said to the Twelve, “You don’t want to go away too, do you?”

Then his brothers said to him, Go down from here, and go into Judea, that your disciples also may see your works which you do;

Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel.

Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

And many of the people believed on him, and said, When Christ cometh, will he do more miracles than these which this man hath done?

Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

“Does our Law convict someone without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he is [accused of] doing?”

And at dawn he came again to the temple,

And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

Now in the law, Moses required us to stone such people [to death], so what do you say [should be done with her]?"

This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.

But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.

They listened [to His reply], and they began to go out one by one, starting with the oldest ones, until He was left alone, with the woman [standing there before Him] in the center of the court.

"No one, sir," she replied. Then Jesus said, "I don't condemn you, either. Go home, and from now on don't sin anymore."

“Even if I testify about Myself,” Jesus replied, “My testimony is valid, because I know where I came from and where I’m going. But you don’t know where I come from or where I’m going.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

therefore I said to you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if you don't believe me to be what I am, ye shall die in your sins.

Then said Jesus to them, When ye shall have lifted up on high the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am, and of myself have I done nothing; but as the Father hath instructed me, so I speak.