"For God loved the world so much that He gave His Only Son, so that anyone who trusts in Him may never perish but have eternal life.

Jesus answered him, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me.

But to all who did accept Him, and trust in His name, He gave the right to become the children of God,

In the beginning the Word existed; and the Word was face to face with God; yea, the Word was God Himself.

So the Word became human and lived a little while among us, and we actually saw His glory, the glory of One who is an only Son from His Father, and He was full of spiritual blessing and truth.

Jesus answered him, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever see the kingdom of God, unless he is born from above."

A thief does not come for any purpose but to steal and kill and destroy; I have come for people to have life and have it till it overflows.

"Stop letting your hearts be troubled; keep on believing in God, and also in me.

The real light, which sheds light upon everyone, was just coming into the world.

Two days later there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and Jesus' mother was there.

I give you a new command, to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you too must love one another.

Now there was a man named Nicodemus, who belonged to the party of the Pharisees and was a leader among the Jews.

And I will ask I will ask the Father and He will give you another Helper, to remain with you to the end of the age;

God is a spiritual Being, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and reality."

"If you really love me, you will keep my commands.

Jesus answered, "I most solemnly say to you, no one can ever get into the kingdom of God, unless he is born of water and the Spirit.

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was winning and baptizing more disciples than John --

and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free."

The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and he said, "Look! He is the Lamb of God who is to take away the world's sin.

But when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into the whole truth, for He will not speak on His own authority but will tell what is told Him, and will announce to you the things that are to come.

It was through Him that everything came into existence, and apart from Him not a single thing came into existence.

But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send to represent me, will teach you everything Himself, and cause you to remember everything that I have told you.

You sprang from the devil, your real father, and you want to practice your father's wishes. He was a murderer from the very start, and he does not stand by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks out of his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

He came for the purpose of testifying, to testify to the light, so that everyone through him might come to believe.

I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in union with me and I in union with him will bear abundant fruit, because you cannot do anything cut off from union with me.

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever listens to me and believes Him who has sent me possesses eternal life, and will never come under condemnation, but has already passed out of death into life.

So He made a lash out of cords, and drove them all, together with the sheep and cattle, out of the temple court, scattered the money-changers' coins and upset their tables.

Consecrate them by your truth; your message is truth.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life myself. Whoever continues to believe in me will live right on even though he dies,

Now eternal life means knowing you as the only true God and knowing Jesus your messenger as Christ.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, I existed before Abraham was born."

The wind blows where it pleases, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. That is just the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

The sick man answered, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is moved, but while I am trying to get down, somebody else steps down ahead of me."

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

Whoever trusts in Him is never to come up for judgment, but whoever does not trust in Him has already received his sentence, because he has not trusted in the name of God's only Son.

Then Jesus again addressed them and said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever continues to follow me need never walk in darkness, but he will enjoy the light that means life."

The Father and I are one."

"I am the real vine, and my Father is the cultivator.

He came to Jesus one night and said to Him, "Teacher, we know that you have come from God, for no one can perform the wonder-works that you are doing, unless God is with him."

Having heard, they began to leave one by one, starting with the eldest, until only Jesus was left with the woman.

I have told you these things, that you through union with me may have peace. In the world you have trouble, but be courageous! I have conquered the world."

So the light continues to shine in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it.

He was not the light; he came to testify to the light.

Whoever trusts in the Son possesses eternal life, but whoever refuses to trust in the Son will not see life, but the wrath of God continues to remain on him.

For God sent His Son into the world, not to pass sentence on it, but that the world through Him might be saved.

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

"You keep on searching the Scriptures, for you yourselves suppose that you will get possession of eternal life through them; and yet they are witnesses that testify to me,

Stop being surprised at this, for the time is coming when all that are in the graves will listen to His voice,

No one has ever seen God; the only son, Deity Himself, who lies upon His Father's breast, has made him known.

No one can show greater love than this, the giving of his life for his friends.

In the evening of that same first day of the week, even with the doors of the room bolted where the disciples had met for fear of the Jews, Jesus went in and stood among them and said to them, "Peace be with you!"

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him to me; then I myself will raise him to life on the last day.

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

And just as Moses in the desert lifted the serpent on the pole, the Son of Man must be lifted up,

Nicodemus said to Him, "How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot again enter his mother's womb and be born, can he?"

I now leave you the blessing of peace, I give you the blessing of my own peace. I myself do not give it in the way the world gives it. Stop letting your hearts be troubled or timid.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me,

Yet it is nothing but the truth I now tell you, that it is better for you that I should go away. For if I do not go away, the Helper will not come into close fellowship with you, but if I do go away, I will send Him to be in close fellowship with you.

I am the good shepherd myself. The good shepherd gives his own life for his sheep.

Jesus and His disciples, too, were invited to the wedding.

All that my Father gives to me will come to me, and I will never, no, never reject anyone who comes to me,

For His disciples had gone into the town to buy some food.

"When the Helper comes whom I will send from the Father to you, the Spirit of truth that comes from the Father, He will testify to me.

On the first day of the week, very early in the morning while it was still dark, Mary of Magdala went to the tomb, and she saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb.

Philip answered Him, "Forty dollars' worth of bread is not enough to give them all even a scanty meal apiece."

So Jesus answered them: "I most solemnly say to you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, except as He sees the Father doing it, for whatever the Father is in the habit of doing the Son also persists in doing.

"I make this petition, not for them only, but for all who ever come to believe in me through their message,

On the last day, the great day, of the feast, Jesus stood and cried aloud, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

Afterward Jesus found him in the temple court, and said to him, "See! You are now well. Stop sinning or something worse may befall you."

Before the Passover feast started, Jesus knew that His time had come for Him to leave the world and go to the Father, and as He had loved His own in the world He loved them to the last.

It was by Him that life began to exist, and that life was the light of mankind.

"And when He comes, He will bring conviction to worldly people about sin and uprightness and judgment;

Jesus answered him, "If anyone really loves me, he will observe my teaching, and my Father will love him, and both of us will come in face-to-face fellowship with him; yes, we will make our special dwelling place with him.

In my Father's house there are many dwelling places; if there were not, I would have told you, for I am going away to make ready a place for you.

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

After they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, are you more devoted to me than you are to these things?" Peter answered Him, "Yes, Lord, you know that I tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my lambs."

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread that gives life. Whoever comes to me will never get hungry, and whoever believes in me will never get thirsty.

Then the Jews addressed Him and asked, "What sign can you show us that you have authority to act in this way?"

The man who had been cured did not know who He was, for since there was a crowd at the place, Jesus had slipped away.

Jesus again said to them, "Peace be with you! Just as my Father has sent me forth, so I am now sending you."

So some of His disciples said to one another, "What does He mean by telling us, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again,' and 'Because I am going away to the Father'?"

He answered them, "The man who cured me said to me, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking.'"

And He had to go through Samaria.

You have not chosen me; I have chosen you, and appointed you to go and bear fruit, that your fruit may remain too, so that the Father may grant you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

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

I most solemnly say to you, whoever perseveres in believing in me can himself do the things that I am doing; yes, he can do even greater things than I am doing, because I am going to the Father.

There appeared a man named John, sent from God.

And the ground for the sentence is this, that the light has come into the world, and yet, because their actions were evil, men have loved darkness more than the light.

He came into His own world, but His own people did not welcome Him.

By this everybody will know that you are my disciples, if you keep on showing love for one another."

This is my command to you, to keep on loving one another as I have loved you.

and I give to them eternal life, and they shall never get lost, and no one shall snatch them out of my hand.

When the wine was all gone, Jesus' mother said to Him, "They have no wine!"

for them all to be one, just as you, Father, are in union with me and I in union with you, for them to be in union with us, so that the world may be convinced that you have sent me.

The woman said to Him, "I see that you are a prophet.

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Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you disciples so long, and yet you, Philip, have not recognized me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Let us see the Father'?

If you remain in union with me and my words remain in you, you may ask whatever you please and you shall have it.

Whatever is born of the physical is physical, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spiritual.

Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would have been fighting to keep me from being turned over to the Jews. But as a matter of fact, my kingdom does not come from such a source."

for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

As soon as Jesus took the sour wine, He said, "It is finished!" Then He bowed His head and gave up His spirit.

Another of His disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to Him,

He is the One who was face to face with God in the beginning.

The Spirit is what gives life; the flesh does not help at all. The truths that I have told you are spirit and life.

As He passed along, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

"I most solemnly say to you, whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over at some other place is a thief and a robber.

But these have been recorded, in order that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life, as bearers of His name.

And yet no one has gone up into heaven except the Son of Man who came down out of heaven.

So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

so that everyone who trusts in Him may have eternal life.

Now a man was sick; it was Lazarus who lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.

Never wonder at my telling you that you must all be born from above.

Whoever continues to hold and keep my commands is the one who really loves me, and whoever really loves me will be loved by my Father; yes, I will love him myself and will make myself real to him."

He came into the world, and though the world through Him began to exist, it did not recognize Him.

"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot grasp it now.

Thomas answered Him, "My Lord and my God!"

Jesus said to her, "Stop clinging to me so, for I have not yet gone up to my Father; but go to my brothers and tell them that I am going up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God."

When Jesus had said all these things, He lifted His eyes to heaven and said: "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, that He may glorify you,

After this Jesus again showed Himself to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias, and this is the way He showed Himself.

and in these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people, blind, crippled, paralyzed.

It was on account of this that the Jews tried all the harder to put Him to death, because He not only persisted in breaking the Sabbath, but also kept on saying that God was His Father, and so was making Himself equal to God.

even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see Him or recognize Him, because He is going to remain with you, and will be within you.

Now the Jewish Passover was approaching; so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

So if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.

And if I go and make it ready for you, I will come back and take you to be face to face with me, so that you may always be right where I am.

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

But John too was baptizing people at Aenon, near Salim, for there was plenty of water there, and so the people were coming and being baptized.

If the world continues to hate you, remember that it has first hated me.

And if I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men to me."

He frankly admitted, and did not try at all to deny it; yes, he frankly admitted, "I am not the Christ."

For the Father loves the Son and shows Him everything that He Himself is doing, and He will show Him greater deeds than these, so that you will keep on wondering.

Now six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany where Lazarus lived, whom He had raised from the dead.

Then He said to the pigeon-dealers, "Take these things out of here! Stop using my Father's house as a market place!"

If men to whom God's message came are called gods -- and the Scriptures cannot be made null and void --

And anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do for you, so that the Father may be glorified through the Son.

After this Jesus went to the other side of the sea of Galilee, or Tiberias.

You have heard me say that I am going away and coming back to you; if you really loved me, you would rejoice over my telling you that I am going to the Father, because my Father is greater than I.

I am the door myself. Whoever enters through me will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture.

Then Nicodemus answered by asking, "How can this be?"

After this, Jesus and His disciples went into Judea, and for some time He stayed there with them and kept baptizing people.

This world is now in process of judgment; the prince of this world is now to be expelled.

You must remain in union with me and I will remain in union with you. Just as no branch by itself can bear fruit unless it remains united to the vine, so you cannot unless you remain in union with me.

They asked him, "Who is the man that said to you, 'Pick up your pallet and go to walking'?"

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

Now in accordance with the custom of purification practiced by the Jews, six stone water jars were standing there, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.

I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. You must remain in my love.

Whoever continues to believe in me will have, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water continuously flowing from within him."

For while the law was given through Moses, spiritual blessing and truth have come through Jesus Christ.

So after He had risen from the dead, His disciples recalled that He had said this, and so believed the Scripture and the statement that He had made.

So I have told you that you would die under the curse of your sins, for unless you believe that I am the Christ, you will die under the curse of your sins."

For the Father passes sentence on no one, but He has committed all judgment to the Son,

And now I am no longer to be in the world, but they are to stay on in the world, while I am going to be with you. Holy Father, keep them by the power which you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.

Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Him."

Then the Jews retorted, "It took forty-six years to build this sanctuary, and you are going to raise it in three days!"

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

So they kept saying, "What does He mean by saying, 'a little while'? We do not know what He is talking about."

Then Jesus said to them, "I most solemnly say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in you.

On saying this, He breathed upon them, and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit!

Jesus answered her, "Anyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again;

Then He answered them, "My Father is still working, and so am I."

I most solemnly say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single grain. But if it does die, it yields a great harvest.

Now there are many other wonder-works which Jesus performed in the disciples' presence which are not recorded in this book.

This is why the Jews were persecuting Jesus, because He persisted in doing such things on the Sabbath.

I cannot do anything by myself. As I get orders, so I judge, and my judgment is a just one, for I am not trying to do my own will but the will of Him who has sent me.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not know what his master is doing; I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father.

I am this living bread that has come down out of heaven. If anyone eats this bread, he will live forever, and the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my own flesh."

I most solemnly say to you, whoever believes in me possesses eternal life.

who were born of God and not of natural blood nor of physical or human impulse.

Many of the Jews read this placard, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Hebrew, Latin, and Greek.

So now, Father, glorify me up there in your presence just as you did before the world existed.

"There is a little boy here who has five barley loaves and a couple of fish, but what are they among so many?"

This is because he is a hired man and does not care a straw for the sheep.

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

After this Jesus went home to Capernaum, with His mother and brothers and disciples, and stayed there for a few days.

At that time came the Feast of Rededication at Jerusalem. It was winter,

Near Jesus' cross were standing His mother and her sister Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala.

For just as the Father raises the dead and makes them live on, so the Son too makes alive any whom He chooses to.

though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, it was His disciples --

Now this is the testimony which John gave when the Jews sent priests and Levites to him from Jerusalem, to ask him, "Who are you?"

Whoever persistently rejects me and refuses to accept my teachings has something to judge him -- the very message I have spoken will judge him on the last day.

Again the next day John was standing with two of his disciples,

Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, who was called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came in.

Then they said to him, "Who are you? Tell us, so that we can have an answer to give to those who sent us. What have you to say for yourself?"

After this, as Jesus knew that everything was now finished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, He said, "I am thirsty."

He left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

He must grow greater and greater, but I less and less."

so they asked him, "Why are you baptizing then, if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?"

For anyone who is in the habit of doing wrong hates the light, and to keep his actions from being reproved, he does not come out into the daylight.

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin.

I am the good shepherd myself. I know my sheep and my sheep know me,

On saying these things He went out with His disciples across the Ravine of Cedars to a place where there was a garden, and He went into it with His disciples.

Jesus saw him lying there, and when He found out that he had been in that condition for a long time, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

If anyone is willing to keep on doing God's will, he will know whether my teaching comes from God, or merely expresses my own ideas.

If you continue to keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commands and remain in His love.

Jesus said, "Make the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass at the spot; so the men, about five thousand, threw themselves down.

Now in Jerusalem near the sheep-gate there is a pool called in Hebrew Bethzatha, which has five porticoes,

Now while He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people, because they saw the wonder-works which He was performing, trusted in Him as the Christ.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to finish His work.

Stop judging superficially; you must judge fairly."

Jesus burst into tears.

"I have made your very self known to the men whom you have given me out of the world. At first they were yours, but now you have given them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

There were some Greeks among those who were coming up to worship at the feast,

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but to keep them from the evil in it.

Then Pilate said to Him, "So you are a king then?" Jesus answered, "Certainly I am a king. For this very purpose I was born, for this very purpose I have come into the world, to testify for truth. Everybody who is a friend of truth listens to my voice."

John answered them, "I am baptizing only in water. There is standing among you One with whom you are not acquainted.

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.

Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, "You are gods"'?

When the questioners persisted, Jesus straightened up and said to them, "Let the one of you who is sinless be the first one to cast a stone at her."

So He came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

Jesus answered them, "The work that God demands of you is this, to believe in the messenger whom He has sent."

Now the messengers belonged to the party of the Pharisees;

His disciples recalled that the Scriptures say, "My zeal for your house will consume me!"

I most solemnly say to you, we know what we are talking about and we have seen what we are testifying to, yet you are all rejecting our testimony.

The next day the vast crowd that had come to the feast, on hearing that Jesus was coming into Jerusalem,

At that time you will ask me no more questions. I most solemnly say to you, the Father will give you, as bearers of my name, whatever you ask Him for.

I most solemnly say to you, a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the dead will listen to the voice of the Son of God, and those who listen to it will live.

So Jesus, on seeing His mother and the disciple whom He loved standing near, said to His mother, "There is your son."

When he had left, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in Him,

Now the will of Him who sent me is this, that I should lose none of all that He has given me, but should raise them to life on the last day.

By your continuously bearing abundant fruit and in this way proving yourselves to be real disciples of mine, my Father is glorified.

Are you not saying, 'In four months more the harvest comes'? Look! I tell you, lift up your eyes and scan the fields, for they are already white for harvesting.

For it is my Father's will that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him to life on the last day."

Do you not believe that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me? I am not saying these things on my own authority, but the Father who always remains in union with me is doing these things Himself.

So Jesus said to them again: "I most solemnly say to you, I am the door to the sheepfold myself.

I did not know Him myself, but I came baptizing in water, that He might be made known to Israel."

His mother said to the servants, "Do whatever He tells you."

Stop toiling for the food that perishes, but toil for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, for God the Father has given Him authority to do so."

but one of the soldiers thrust a lance into His side and blood and water at once flowed out.

Jesus performed this, the first of His wonder-works, at Cana in Galilee. By it He showed His glorious power, and so His disciples believed in Him.

This took place at Bethany on the farther side of the Jordan, where John was baptizing.

Jesus said to him, "Is it because you have seen me, Thomas, that you believe? Blessed be those who believe, even though they have not seen me!"

Jesus answered him, "Are you a teacher of Israel and do not know this?

And she said, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "Neither do I condemn you. Go. Stop sinning from this point on."

For He whom God has sent continues to speak the words of God, for God continues to give Him the Spirit without measure.

You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, are you, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with all his sons and flocks?"

because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of Him who sent me.

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

Philip said to Him, "Lord, let us see the Father, and that will satisfy us."

But Mary stood just outside the tomb and kept weeping. So, as she was weeping, she stooped down and peered into the tomb

He answered, "The man called Jesus made some clay and rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash them.' So when I had gone and washed them I could see."

You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping; we Jews do know what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the Jews.

Then He said to Thomas, "Put your finger here and look at my hands, and take your hand and put it in my side, and stop being an unbeliever, but be a believer!"

For from His bounty we have all received spiritual blessing after spiritual blessing.

Father, I want to have those whom you have given me right where I am, in order that they may see the glory which you have given me, because you loved me before the creation of the world.

After this, Jesus went on moving about in Galilee; He would not do so in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

There are many other things that Jesus did, which, if they were all written down in detail, I do not suppose that the world itself could hold the books that would have to be written.

The next day Jesus decided to leave for Galilee. So He sought out Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

And each one went to his own house.

"I have told you these things, that the joy which I have had may remain in you and that your joy may be complete.

But after His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He went up too, not publicly but, as it were, privately.

So the Jews began to say to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath, and it is against the law for you to carry your pallet."

I will not leave you helpless orphans. I am coming back to you.

We must continue to do the works of Him who sent me while it is daylight. Night is coming when no one can do any work.

As it was the day of Preparation for the Passover, that the bodies might not remain on the crosses during the Sabbath, for that Sabbath was a very important one, the Jews requested Pilate to have their legs broken and their bodies taken down.

He said this, and after that He added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there to wake him."

You are my friends, if you keep on doing what I command you to do.

When they had plenty, He said to His disciples, "Pick up the pieces that are left, that nothing be wasted."

My father who gave them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.

Your forefather Abraham exulted in the hope of seeing my day. He has seen it and is glad of it."

If you do not believe the earthly things I tell you, how can you believe the heavenly things, if I tell you about them?

I in union with them and you in union with me, so that they may be perfectly united, and the world may be sure that you sent me and that you have loved them just as you have loved me.

But whoever is in the habit of living the truth will come out in the daylight, that his actions may be shown to be performed with God's help."

and He went out carrying the cross by Himself to a spot called The Place of the Skull, or in Hebrew, Golgotha.

I have glorified you down here upon the earth by completing the work which you have given me to do.

and those who have done good will come out for a resurrection to life, but those who have done evil for a resurrection to condemnation.

So then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.

"I shall not talk much more with you, for the evil ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in common with me,

If you belonged to the world, the world would love what is its own. But it is because you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, that the world hates you.

She said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water?

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

Then they asked Him, "What must we do to perform the works that God demands?"

If you get forgiveness for people's sins, they are forgiven them; if you let people's sins fasten upon them, they will remain fastened upon them."

If you knew me, you would know my Father too. From now on you do know Him and you have seen Him."

I did not know Him myself, but the very One who sent me to baptize in water said to me, 'The One on whom you see the Spirit coming down and remaining, is the One who is to baptize in the Holy Spirit.'

Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

He is to become my successor, because He has been put before me, and I am not fit to untie His shoestrings."

Then Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. No, indeed, I have not come on my own authority, but He has sent me.

I am the bread that gives life.

As soon as the manager tasted the water just turned into wine, without knowing where it came from, although the servants who had drawn the water did know, he called the bridegroom

I have given them the glory which you gave me, so that they may be one, just as we are,

I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world now, but only for those whom you have given me, because they are yours --

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

So Jesus said to them, "When you lift the Son of Man (on the cross), you will know that I am the Christ, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but that I say exactly what my Father has instructed me to say.

I do not mean all of you. I know whom I have chosen, but I know that the Scriptures must be fulfilled: 'The man who is eating my bread has lifted his heel against me.'

So the high priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "You must not write, 'The king of the Jews,' but write, 'He said, I am the king of the Jews.'"

I have given them your message, and the world has hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to it.

After saying this Jesus was deeply moved in spirit and solemnly said, "I most solemnly say to you, one of you is going to betray me."

Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to the governor's palace. It was early in the morning, and they would not go into the governor's palace themselves, in order not to be defiled, so as to be unfit to eat the Passover supper.

and needed no testimony from anyone about them, for He well knew what was in human nature.

Remember what I once told you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took His clothes and divided them into four parts, one for each soldier, except the coat, which was without a seam, woven in one piece from top to bottom,

Simon Peter answered Him, "To whom can we go, Lord? You have the message that gives eternal life,

He cuts away any branch on me that stops bearing fruit, and He repeatedly prunes every branch that continues to bear fruit, to make it bear more.

If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another's feet.

So the rest of the disciples kept saying to him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail prints in His hands, and put my finger into them, and put my hand into His side, I will never believe it!"

Now my soul is troubled; what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour of agony! And yet it was for this very purpose that I came to this hour of agony.

The Jews retorted, "It is not for a good deed but for blasphemy we are going to stone you; namely, because you, although a mere man, claim to be God."

So many of His disciples, when they heard it, said, "This teaching is hard to take in. Who can listen to it?"

that all men may honor the Son as they do the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one because of his fear of the Jews, asked permission of Pilate to remove the body of Jesus, and Pilate granted it. So he went and removed His body.

Philip sought out Nathaniel and said to him, "We have found the One about whom Moses wrote in the law and the One about whom the prophets wrote; it is Jesus, the son of Joseph, who comes from Nazareth."

This is the One about whom I said, 'After me there is coming a man who has already been put before me, because He existed before me.'

So Pilate went back into the governor's palace and called Jesus and asked Him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

(For John had not yet been put in prison.)

As a result of this many of His disciples turned their backs on Him and stopped accompanying Him.

Then he took him to Jesus. Jesus looked him over and said, "You are Simon, son of John. From now on your name shall be Cephas" (which means Peter, or Rock).

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

Then John gave this testimony: "I saw the Spirit coming down from heaven like a dove, and it remained on Him.

Just as you have sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world, too.

If you know all this, happy are you if you practice it.

Just a week later the disciples were in the room again and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were bolted, Jesus came in and stood among them, and said, "Peace be with you!"

But He would not trust Himself to them, because He knew all men

And the scribes and Pharisees brought a woman they had caught in adultery. And standing her in the middle,

As long as I was with them, I kept them by your power which you gave me, and I protected them, and not one of them was lost, except the one who is now doomed to be lost, so that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

If anyone serves me, he must continue to follow me, and my servant also must go wherever I go. If anyone serves me, my Father will show him honor.

Then He said to them, "Now draw some out and take it to the manager of the feast." So they took him some.

And in the temple court He found the dealers in cattle, sheep, and pigeons; the money-changers, too, seated at their tables.

Jesus knew that they wanted to ask Him a question, and so He said to them, "Are you inquiring of one another about this saying of mine, 'In just a little while you will not see me, and yet in just a little while after you will see me again'?

He first found his brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means, the Christ).

In the prophets it is written, 'And all men will be taught by God.' Everyone who ever listens to the Father and learns from Him will come to me.

Then Jesus again said to them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die under the curse of your sins; for where I am going you can never come."

The woman said to Him, "Give me this water at once, sir, so I may never get thirsty again, nor have to come so far to draw water."

By this He referred to the Spirit that those believing in Him were going to receive -- for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Whoever loves his lower life will lose the higher, but whoever hates his lower life in this world preserves the higher for eternal life.

No one has taken it from me, but I am giving it as a free gift. I have the right to give it and I have the right to take it back. I have gotten this order from my Father."

I have come in my Father's name, but you refuse to accept me. If anyone else should come in his own name, you would accept him.

You are already pruned because of the teaching that I have given you.

Up to this time you have not asked for anything as bearers of my name, but now you must keep on asking, and you will receive, that your cup of joy may be full to the brim.

but you refuse to come to me to get possession of life.

But now I am going away to Him who has sent me, and not one of you is asking me where I am going,

Jesus said to him, "Get up, pick up your pallet, and go to walking."

The Pharisees then said to Him, "You are testifying to yourself; your testimony is not true."

Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not my own, but it comes from Him who sent me.

Yes, I repeat it, anything you ask for as bearers of my name I will do it for you.

For if you really believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote about me.

He will glorify me, because He will take the things that belong to me and tell them to you.

You must believe me, that I am in union with the Father and that the Father is in union with me, or else you must do so because of the very things that I am doing.

And at once the man was well, and picked up his pallet, and went to walking. Now it was the Sabbath.

So when Jesus learned that they were going to come and carry Him off by force to crown Him king, He again retired to the hill by Himself.

Then Jesus found a young donkey and mounted it, doing as the Scripture says:

When Jesus reached there, He found that Lazarus had been buried for four days.

just as you have given Him authority over all mankind to give eternal life to all whom you have given Him.

Whoever continues to eat my flesh and drink my blood already possesses eternal life, and I will raise him to life on the last day.

If anyone does not remain in union with me, he is thrown away as a mere branch and is dried up; then it is picked up and thrown into the fire and burned up.

Jesus heard that they had turned the man out of the synagogue; so He found him and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man yourself?"

For the third time Jesus asked him, "Simon, son of John, do you really tenderly love me?" Peter was hurt because Jesus the third time asked him, "Do you really tenderly love me?" So he answered Him, "Lord, you know everything; you know that I do tenderly love you." Jesus said to him, "Then feed my sheep.

And there was a great deal of grumbling about Him among the crowds, some saying that He was a good man, and others that He was not, but was misleading the masses.

So they picked them up and filled twelve baskets with the pieces that were left from the five barley loaves, which were more than the eaters wanted.

For I have set you an example, in order that you too may practice what I have done to you.

At that time you will know that I am in union with my Father and you are in union with me and I am in union with you.

yes, the Father who has sent me has testified to me Himself. You have never heard His voice nor seen His form;

If anyone hears my words and fails to keep them, it is not I that judge him, for I have not come to judge but to save the world.

Who of you can prove me guilty of sin? But if I do tell you the truth, why do you not believe me?

Many of them said, "He is under the power of a demon and is going crazy. Why are you listening to Him?"

Then they asked him, "Where is He?" He answered, "I do not know."

Even if I should judge, my decision is fair, because I am not alone, but there are two of us, I and the Father who has sent me.

You are judging in accordance with external standards, but I judge nobody.

The man went back and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had cured him.

They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Pilate answered, "What I have written, I have written!"

So the report got out among the brothers that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not tell him that he was not going to die; He said only, "If I wish him to wait until I come, what is that to you?"

So why are you questioning me? Ask those who heard what I told them. Of course, they know what I said."

So the Pharisees said to one another, "You see, you cannot help it at all; the whole world has gone off after Him!"

They will do all this to you on account of me, because they do not know Him who has sent me.

So Jesus then told them plainly: "Lazarus is dead,

And yet, for fear of the Jews, nobody dared to speak in public about Him.

But Jesus had spoken about his death. However, they supposed that He was referring to falling into a natural sleep.

Righteous Father, although the world did not know you, I did know you, and these men have come to know that you sent me,

His disciples at the time did not understand this, but after Jesus was glorified, they remembered that this had been written about Him and that they had fulfilled it in His case.

These words again led to a difference of opinion among the Jews.

I do testify to myself, and the Father who has sent me testifies to me."

Now it was on the Sabbath when Jesus had made the clay and caused the man's eyes to see.

The crowd that had been with Him when He called Lazarus out of the grave and raised him from the dead, kept on talking about it.

Now Jesus turned, and as He saw them following Him, He said, "What are you looking for?" They said to Him, "Rabbi," (which means Teacher), "where are you staying?"

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there so that you may come to have real faith in me. But let us go to him."

"Cease from fearing, Daughter of Zion; See, your King is coming mounted on an ass's colt!"