while the Law was given through Moses, grace and reality are ours through Jesus Christ.

Next day he observed Jesus coming towards him and exclaimed, "Look, there is the lamb of God, who is to remove the sin of the world!

he gazed at Jesus as he walked about, and said, "Look, there is the lamb of God!"

The two disciples heard what he said and went after Jesus.

Now Jesus turned, and when he observed them coming after him, he asked them, "What do you want?" They replied, "Rabbi" (which may be translated, 'teacher'), "where are you staying?"

One of the two men who heard what John said and went after Jesus was Andrew, the brother of Peter.

He took him to Jesus; Jesus gazed at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John? Your name is to be Cephas" (meaning 'Peter' or 'rock').

Next day Jesus determined to leave for Galilee; there he met Philip and told him, "Follow me."

he met Nathanael and told him, "We have found him whom Moses wrote about in the Law, and also the prophets ??it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazaret."

Jesus saw Nathanael approaching and said of him, "Here is a genuine Israelite! There is no guile in him."

Nathanael said to him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered, "When you were under that fig tree, before ever Philip called you, I saw you."

Jesus answered, "You believe because I told you I had seen you under that fig tree? You shall see more than that."

Two days later a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee; the mother of Jesus was present,

and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.

As the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, "They have no wine."

"Woman," said Jesus, "what have you to do with me? My time has not come yet."

Jesus said, "Fill up the jars with water." So they filled them to the brim.

Jesus performed this, the first of his Signs, at Cana in Galilee, thereby displaying his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Now the Jewish passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

Jesus replied, "Destroy this sanctuary and I will raise it up in three days."

and when the disciples recalled what he had said, after he had been raised from the dead, they believed the scripture and the word of Jesus.

Jesus, however, would not trust himself to them; he knew all men,

he came one night to Jesus and said, "Rabbi, we know you have come from God to teach us, for no one could perform these Signs of yours unless God were with him."

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, no one can see God's Realm unless he is born from above."

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter God's Realm.

Jesus replied, "You do not understand this? ??you, a teacher in Israel!

[vss 22-30 moved to between 2:12 and 2:13] After this Jesus and his disciples went into the country of Judaea, where he spent some time with them baptizing.

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard of Jesus gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

(though Jesus himself did not baptize, it was his disciples),

and Jacob's spring was there. Jesus, exhausted by the journey, sat down at the spring, just as he was. It was about noon,

and a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink"

Jesus answered, "If you knew what is the free gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him instead, and he would have given you 'living' water."

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

Jesus said to her, "Go and call your husband, then come back here."

The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You were right in saying, 'I have no husband';

"Woman," said Jesus, "believe me, the time is coming when you will be worshipping the Father neither on this mountain nor at Jerusalem.

"I am messiah," said Jesus, "I who am talking to you."

Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

(for Jesus himself testified that a prophet enjoys no honour in his own country);

when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death.

Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you never will believe."

Jesus told him, "Go yourself, your son is alive." The man believed what Jesus told him, and started on his journey.

Then the father realized that it had left him at the very time when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is alive"; and he became a believer with all his household.

This was the second Sign which Jesus performed again after leaving Judaea for Galilee.

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

Jesus saw him lying, and knowing he had been ill for a long while he said to him, "Do you want your health restored?"

Jesus said to him, "Get up, lift your mat, and walk."

Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for (owing to the crowd on the spot) Jesus had slipped away.

Later on Jesus met him in the temple, and said to him, "See, you are well and strong; commit no more sins, in case something worse befalls you."

Off went the man and told the Jews it was Jesus who had healed him.

And this was why the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did things like this on the sabbath.

The reply of Jesus was, "As my Father has continued working to this hour, so I work too."

So Jesus made this answer to them: "Truly, truly I tell you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, nothing but what he sees the Father doing; for whatever he does, the Son also does the same.

After this Jesus went off to the opposite side of the sea of Galilee (the lake of Tiberias),

Now Jesus went up the hill and sat down there with his disciples.

Jesus said, "Get the people to lie down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot, so the men lay down, numbering about five thousand.

Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks to God, and distributed them to those who were reclining; so too with the fish, as much as they wanted.

Whereupon Jesus perceived they meant to come and seize him to make a king of him; so he withdrew by himself to the hill again.

and embarking in a boat they started across the sea for Capharnahum. By this time it was dark, Jesus had not reached them yet,

After rowing about three or four miles they saw Jesus walking on the sea and nearing the boat. They were terrified,

Next day the crowd which had been left standing on the other side of the sea bethought them that only one boat had been there, and that Jesus had not gone aboard with his disciples, who had left by themselves.

and as the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they embarked in the boats themselves and made for Capharnahum in search of Jesus.

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I tell you, it is not because you saw Signs that you are in quest of me, but because you ate these loaves and had your fill.

Jesus replied to them, "This is the work of God, to believe in him whom God has sent."

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."

Jesus said, "I am the bread of life; he who comes to me will never be hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty again.

They said, "Is this not Jesus the son of Joseph? We know his father and mother. How can he claim now, 'I have come down from heaven'?"

Jesus replied to them, "Stop murmuring to yourselves.

So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life within you.

Jesus, inwardly conscious that his disciples were murmuring at it, said to them, "So this upsets you?

And yet there are some of you who do not believe" (for Jesus knew from the very first who the unbelieving were, and who was to betray him;

So Jesus said to the twelve, "You do not want to go, too?"

Jesus answered them, "Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil!"

After this Jesus moved about in Galilee; he would not move in Judaea, because the Jews were trying to kill him.

Jesus said to them, "My time has not come yet, but your time is always at hand;

When the festival was half over, Jesus went up to the temple and began to teach.

Jesus told them in reply, "My teaching is not my own but his who sent me;

Jesus answered them, "I have only performed one deed, and yet you are all amazed at it.

So Jesus cried aloud, as he was teaching in the temple, "You know me? you know where I come from? But I have not come on my own initiative; I am sent, and sent by Him who is real. You do not know Him,

The Pharisees heard the people discussing Jesus in this way, so the high priests and the Pharisees despatched attendants to arrest him.

Then said Jesus, "I will be with you a little longer, then I go to Him who sent me;

Now on the last day, the great day, of the festival, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is athirst, let him come to me and drink;

(he meant by this the Spirit which those who believed in him were to receive: ??as yet there was no Spirit, because Jesus had not been glorified yet).

but Jesus went to the Hill of Olives.

(They said this to test him, in order to get a charge against him.) Jesus stooped down, and began to write with his finger on the ground;

And on hearing what he said, they went away one by one, beginning with the older men, till Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Looking up, Jesus said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

She said, "No one, sir." Jesus said, "Neither do I; be off, and never sin again."]

Then Jesus again addressed them, saying, "I am the light of the world: he who follows me will not walk in darkness, he will enjoy the light of life."

Jesus replied to them, "Though I do testify to myself, my evidence is valid, because I know where I have come from and where I am going to ??whereas you do not know where I have come from or where I am going to.

"Where is your Father?" they said. Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you had known me you would have known my Father also."

They said, "Who are you?" Jesus replied, "Why should I talk to you at all?

so Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of man, you will know then who I am, and that I do nothing of my own accord, but speak as the Father has taught me.

So Jesus addressed the Jews who had believed him, saying, "If you abide by what I say, you are really disciples of mine:

Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave.

They answered him, "Abraham is our father." "If you are Abraham's children," said Jesus, "then do as Abraham did;

Said Jesus, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I came here from God; I did not come of my own accord, I was sent by him.

Jesus replied, "I am not mad: I honour my Father and you dishonour me.

Jesus replied, "Were I to glorify myself, my glory would be nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me; you say 'He is our God,'

"Truly, truly I tell you," said Jesus, "I have existed before Abraham was born."