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

The Word became flesh
and took up residence among us.
We observed His glory,
the glory as the One and Only Son from the Father,
full of grace and truth.

No one has ever seen God.
The One and Only Son—
the One who is at the Father’s side—
He has revealed Him.

This is John’s testimony when the Jews from Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him, “Who are you?”

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

He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord—just as Isaiah the prophet said.”

He is the One coming after me, whose sandal strap I’m not worthy to untie.”

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Here is the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

This is the One I told you about: ‘After me comes a man who has surpassed me, because He existed before me.’

I didn’t know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘The One you see the Spirit descending and resting on—He is the One who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’

I have seen and testified that He is the Son of God!”

Then Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, “Here is a true Israelite; no deceit is in him.”

Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding as well.

And His disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for Your house will consume Me.

So the Jews replied to Him, “What sign of authority will You show us for doing these things?”

This man came to Him at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher, for no one could perform these signs You do unless God were with him.”

Jesus replied, “I assure you: Unless someone is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

“But how can anyone be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked Him. “Can he enter his mother’s womb a second time and be born?”

Jesus answered, “I assure you: Unless someone is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spirit.

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.”

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

Anyone who believes in Him is not condemned, but anyone who does not believe is already condemned, because he has not believed in the name of the One and Only Son of God.

“This, then, is the judgment: The light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than the light because their deeds were evil.

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.”

He who has the bride is the groom. But the groom’s friend, who stands by and listens for him, rejoices greatly at the groom’s voice. So this joy of mine is complete.

The One who comes from above is above all. The one who is from the earth is earthly and speaks in earthly terms. The One who comes from heaven is above all.

The one who has accepted His testimony has affirmed that God is true.

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

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

You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.

God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

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.”

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

By the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem there is a pool, called Bethesda in Hebrew, which has five colonnades.

“Sir,” the sick man answered, “I don’t have a man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, but while I’m coming, someone goes down ahead of me.”

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, “This is the Sabbath! It’s illegal for you to pick up your mat.”

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

But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything He is doing, and He will show Him greater works than these so that you will be amazed.

And just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so the Son also gives life to anyone He wants to.

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.

“I assure you: An hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

For just as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted to the Son to have life in Himself.

And He has granted Him the right to pass judgment, because He is the Son of Man.

Do not be amazed at this, because a time is coming when all who are in the graves will hear His voice

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

“If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid.

There is Another who testifies about Me, and I know that the testimony He gives about Me is valid.

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

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.”

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

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

Jesus replied, “This is the work of God—that you believe in the One He has sent.”

Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, just as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat.”

For the bread of God is the One who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

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

But as I told you, you’ve seen Me, and yet you do not believe.

This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.

For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

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—

not that anyone has seen the Father except the One who is from God. He has seen the Father.

This is the bread that comes down from heaven so that anyone may eat of it and not die.

I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread he will live forever. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is My flesh.”

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us His flesh to eat?”

because My flesh is real food and My blood is real drink.

Just as the living Father sent Me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on Me will live because of Me.

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?”

The Spirit is the One who gives life. The flesh doesn’t help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

He said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to Me unless it is granted to him by the Father.”

Jesus replied to them, “Didn’t I choose you, the Twelve? Yet one of you is the Devil!”

Jesus told them, “My time has not yet arrived, but your time is always at hand.

The Jews were looking for Him at the festival and saying, “Where is He?”

Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t Mine but is from the One who sent Me.

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

The one who speaks for himself seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

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?

But we know where this man is from. When the Messiah comes, nobody will know where He is from.”

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;

What is this remark He made: ‘You will look for Me, and you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come’?”

On the last and most important day of the festival, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, he should come to Me and drink!

The one who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, will have streams of living water flow from deep within him.”

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

Others said, “This is the Messiah!” But some said, “Surely the Messiah doesn’t come from Galilee, does He?

But this crowd, which doesn’t know the law, is accursed!”