For this is the way God loved the world: He gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.

Jesus replied, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

But to all who have received him -- those who believe in his name -- he has given the right to become God's children

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was fully God.

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory -- the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

"Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.

The true light, who gives light to everyone, was coming into the world.

Now on the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Jesus' mother was there,

"I give you a new commandment -- to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever --

God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

"If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

Jesus answered, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born of water and spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Now when Jesus knew 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."

On the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.

All things were created by him, and apart from him not one thing was created that has been created.

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

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

"I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me -- and I in him -- bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.

Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

Now this is eternal life -- that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me some water to drink."

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, before Abraham came into existence, I am!"

The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me."

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

The one who believes in him is not condemned. The one who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the one and only Son of God.

Then Jesus spoke out again, "I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life."

The Father and I are one."

"I am the true vine and my Father is the gardener.

came to Jesus at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the miraculous signs that you do unless God is with him."

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In the world you have trouble and suffering, but take courage -- I have conquered the world."

And the light shines on in the darkness, but the darkness has not mastered it.

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life. The one who rejects the Son will not see life, but God's wrath remains on him.

For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world should be saved through him.

But a time is coming -- and now is here -- when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

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

No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known.

No one has greater love than this -- that one lays down his life for his friends.

On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the disciples had gathered together and locked the doors of the place because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. Jesus came 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, and I will raise him up at the last day.

After this there was a Jewish feast, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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

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

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you; I do not give it to you as the world does. Do not let your hearts be distressed or lacking in courage.

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

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

and Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding.

Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me, and the one who comes to me I will never send away.

(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send you from the Father -- the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father -- he will testify about me,

Now very early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been moved away from the entrance.

Philip replied, "Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little."

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

"I am not praying only on their behalf, but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony,

On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out, "If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

Jesus answered her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, 'Give me some water to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

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."

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

In him was life, and the life was the light of mankind.

And when he comes, he will prove the world wrong concerning sin and righteousness and judgment --

Jesus replied, "If anyone loves me, he will obey my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and take up residence with him.

There are many dwelling places in my Father's house. Otherwise, I would have told you, because I am going away to make ready a place for you.

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

Then when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these do?" He replied, "Yes, Lord, you know I love you." Jesus told him, "Feed my lambs."

Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. The one who comes to me will never go hungry, and the one who believes in me will never be thirsty.

So then the Jewish leaders responded, "What sign can you show us, since you are doing these things?"

But the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped out, since there was a crowd in that place.

So Jesus said to them again, "Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you."

Then some of his disciples said to one another, "What is the meaning of what he is saying, 'In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me,' and, 'because I am going to the Father'?"

But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Pick up your mat and walk.'"

But he had to pass through Samaria.

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that remains, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

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

I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

Now this is the basis for judging: that the light has come into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light, because their deeds were evil.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

Everyone will know by this that you are my disciples -- if you have love for one another."

My commandment is this -- to love one another just as I have loved you.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

When the wine ran out, Jesus' mother said to him, "They have no wine left."

that they will all be one, just as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. I pray that they will be in us, so that the world will believe that you sent me.

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

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Jesus replied, "Have I been with you for so long, and you have not known me, Philip? The person who has seen me has seen the Father! How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.

What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Jesus replied, "My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here."

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!"

When he had received the sour wine, Jesus said, "It is completed!" Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

One of Jesus' disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him,

The Word was with God in the beginning.

The Spirit is the one who gives life; human nature is of no help! The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life.

Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life."

"I tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

No one has ascended into heaven except the one who descended from heaven -- the Son of Man.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you -- a Jew -- ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?" (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life."

Now a certain man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village where Mary and her sister Martha lived.

Do not be amazed that I said to you, 'You must all be born from above.'

The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

He was in the world, and the world was created by him, but the world did not recognize him.

"I have many more things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now.

Thomas replied to him, "My Lord and my God!"

Jesus replied, "Do not touch me, for I have not yet ascended to my Father. Go to my brothers and tell them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

When Jesus had finished saying these things, he looked upward to heaven and said, "Father, the time has come. Glorify your Son, so that your Son may glorify you --

After this Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias. Now this is how he did so.

A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it does not see him or know him. But you know him, because he resides with you and will be in you.

Now the Jewish feast of Passover was near, so Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

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

And if I go and make ready a place for you, I will come again and take you to be with me, so that where I am you may be too.

But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.

John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because water was plentiful there, and people were coming to him and being baptized.

"If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself."

He confessed -- he did not deny but confessed -- "I am not the Christ!"

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

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

To those who sold the doves he said, "Take these things away from here! Do not make my Father's house a marketplace!"

If those people to whom the word of God came were called 'gods' (and the scripture cannot be broken),

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (also called the Sea of Tiberias).

You heard me say to you, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

Nicodemus replied, "How can these things be?"

After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out.

Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me.

They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Pick up your mat and walk'?"

I have other sheep that do not come from this sheepfold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, so that there will be one flock and one shepherd.

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

"Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

let the one who believes in me drink. Just as the scripture says, 'From within him will flow rivers of living water.'"

For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came about through Jesus Christ.

So after he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the saying that Jesus had spoken.

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins."

Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them safe in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are one.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."

Then the Jewish leaders said to him, "This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?"

Jesus replied, "Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come."

So they kept on repeating, "What is the meaning of what he says, 'In a little while'? We do not understand what he is talking about."

Jesus said to them, "I tell you the solemn truth, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.

And after he said this, he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

Jesus replied, "Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.

So he told them, "My Father is working until now, and I too am working."

I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces much grain.

Now Jesus performed many other miraculous signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not recorded in this book.

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

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

I tell you the solemn truth, the one who believes has eternal life.

-- children not born by human parents or by human desire or a husband's decision, but by God.

Thus many of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek.

And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

"Here is a boy who has five barley loaves and two fish, but what good are these for so many people?"

Because he is a hired hand and is not concerned about the sheep, he runs away.

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

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

Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem.

Now standing beside Jesus' cross were his mother, his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whomever he wishes.

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

Now this was John's testimony when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, "Who are you?"

The one who rejects me and does not accept my words has a judge; the word I have spoken will judge him at the last day.

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

Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the twelve, was not with them when Jesus came.

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

After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said (in order to fulfill the scripture), "I am thirsty!"

he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

He must become more important while I become less important."

So they asked John, "Why then are you baptizing if you are not the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

"I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me --

When he had said these things, Jesus went out with his disciples across the Kidron Valley. There was an orchard there, and he and his disciples went into it.

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, "Do you want to become well?"

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." (Now there was a lot of grass in that place.) So the men sat down, about five thousand in number.

Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool called Bethzatha in Aramaic, which has five covered walkways.

Now while Jesus was in Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover, many people believed in his name because they saw the miraculous signs he was doing.

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

Do not judge according to external appearance, but judge with proper judgment."

Jesus wept.

"I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

Now some Greeks were among those who had gone up to worship at the feast.

I am not asking you to take them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil one.

Then Pilate said, "So you are a king!" Jesus replied, "You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world -- to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."

John answered them, "I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

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

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, "Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her."

Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

Jesus replied, "This is the deed God requires -- to believe in the one whom he sent."

(Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.)

His disciples remembered that it was written, "Zeal for your house will devour me."

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem.

At that time you will ask me nothing. I tell you the solemn truth, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you.

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming -- and is now here -- when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

So when Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing there, he said to his mother, "Woman, look, here is your son!"

When Judas had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man is glorified, and God is glorified in him.

Now this is the will of the one who sent me -- that I should not lose one person of every one he has given me, but raise them all up at the last day.

My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples.

Don't you say, 'There are four more months and then comes the harvest?' I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!

For this is the will of my Father -- for everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him to have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day."

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

So Jesus said to them again, "I tell you the solemn truth, I am the door for the sheep.

I did not recognize him, but I came baptizing with water so that he could be revealed to Israel."

His mother told the servants, "Whatever he tells you, do it."

Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life -- the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him."

But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and blood and water flowed out immediately.

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.

These things happened in Bethany across the Jordan River where John was baptizing.

Jesus said to him, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are the people who have not seen and yet have believed."

Jesus answered, "Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don't understand these things?

She replied, "No one, Lord." And Jesus said, "I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more."]]

For the one whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for he does not give the Spirit sparingly.

Surely you're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock."

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

This is why the Father loves me -- because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content."

But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she bent down and looked into the tomb.

He replied, "The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and was able to see."

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

Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here, and examine my hands. Extend your hand and put it into my side. Do not continue in your unbelief, but believe."

For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.

"Father, I want those you have given me to be with me where I am, so that they can see my glory that you gave me because you loved me before the creation of the world.

After this Jesus traveled throughout Galilee. He stayed out of Judea because the Jewish leaders wanted to kill him.

There are many other things that Jesus did. If every one of them were written down, I suppose the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.

On the next day Jesus wanted to set out for Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, "Follow me."

[[And each one departed to his own house.

I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat."

"I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Then, because it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies should not stay on the crosses on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was an especially important one), the Jewish leaders asked Pilate to have the victims' legs broken and the bodies taken down.

After he said this, he added, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him."

You are my friends if you do what I command you.

When they were all satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples, "Gather up the broken pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted."

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father's hand.

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad."

If I have told you people about earthly things and you don't believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

I in them and you in me -- that they may be completely one, so that the world will know that you sent me, and you have loved them just as you have loved me.

But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called "The Place of the Skull" (called in Aramaic Golgotha).

I glorified you on earth by completing the work you gave me to do.

and will come out -- the ones who have done what is good to the resurrection resulting in life, and the ones who have done what is evil to the resurrection resulting in condemnation.

Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged severely.

I will not speak with you much longer, for the ruler of this world is coming. He has no power over me,

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

"Sir," the woman said to him, "you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Right you are when you said, 'I have no husband,'

So then they said to him, "What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?"

If you forgive anyone's sins, they are forgiven; if you retain anyone's sins, they are retained."

If you have known me, you will know my Father too. And from now on you do know him and have seen him."

And I did not recognize him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water said to me, 'The one on whom you see the Spirit descending and remaining -- this is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.'

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

who is coming after me. I am not worthy to untie the strap of his sandal!"

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

I am the bread of life.

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

The glory you gave to me I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one --

I am praying on behalf of them. I am not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you have given me, because they belong to you.

For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

"What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, 'The one who eats my bread has turned against me.'

Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The king of the Jews,' but rather, 'This man said, I am king of the Jews.'"

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

When he had said these things, Jesus was greatly distressed in spirit, and testified, "I tell you the solemn truth, one of you will betray me."

Then they brought Jesus from Caiaphas to the Roman governor's residence. (Now it was very early morning.) They did not go into the governor's residence so they would not be ceremonially defiled, but could eat the Passover meal.

He did not need anyone to testify about man, for he knew what was in man.

Remember what I told you, 'A slave is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they obeyed my word, they will obey yours too.

Now when the soldiers crucified Jesus, they took his clothes and made four shares, one for each soldier, and the tunic remained. (Now the tunic was seamless, woven from top to bottom as a single piece.)

Simon Peter answered him, "Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

He takes away every branch that does not bear fruit in me. He prunes every branch that bears fruit so that it will bear more fruit.

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

The other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!" But he replied, "Unless I see the wounds from the nails in his hands, and put my finger into the wounds from the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will never believe it!"

"Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? 'Father, deliver me from this hour'? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

The Jewish leaders replied, "We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God."

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, "This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?"

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.

After this, Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus (but secretly, because he feared the Jewish leaders), asked Pilate if he could remove the body of Jesus. Pilate gave him permission, so he went and took the body away.

Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one Moses wrote about in the law, and the prophets also wrote about -- Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph."

This is the one about whom I said, 'After me comes a man who is greater than I am, because he existed before me.'

So Pilate went back into the governor's residence, summoned Jesus, and asked him, "Are you the king of the Jews?"

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

After this many of his disciples quit following him and did not accompany him any longer.

Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, "You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas" (which is translated Peter).

Jesus told the servants, "Fill the water jars with water." So they filled them up to the very top.

Then John testified, "I saw the Spirit descending like a dove from heaven, and it remained on him.

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

If you understand these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

Eight days later the disciples were again together in the house, and Thomas was with them. Although the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!"

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

When I was with them I kept them safe and watched over them in your name that you have given me. Not one of them was lost except the one destined for destruction, so that the scripture could be fulfilled.

If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the head steward," and they did.

He found in the temple courts those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers sitting at tables.

Jesus could see that they wanted to ask him about these things, so he said to them, "Are you asking each other about this -- that I said, 'In a little while you will not see me; again after a little while, you will see me'?

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated Christ).

It is written in the prophets, 'And they will all be taught by God.' Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

Then Jesus said to them again, "I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

The one who loves his life destroys it, and the one who hates his life in this world guards it for eternal life.

No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

You are clean already because of the word that I have spoken to you.

Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive it, so that your joy may be complete.

but you are not willing to come to me so that you may have life.

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, 'Where are you going?'

Jesus said to him, "Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk."

So the Pharisees objected, "You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!"

So Jesus replied, "My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

If you ask me anything in my name, I will do it.

If you believed Moses, you would believe me, because he wrote about me.

He will glorify me, because he will receive from me what is mine and will tell it to you.

Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves.

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.

Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

just as you have given him authority over all humanity, so that he may give eternal life to everyone you have given him.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

If anyone does not remain in me, he is thrown out like a branch, and dries up; and such branches are gathered up and thrown into the fire, and are burned up.

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?"

Jesus said a third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love me?" Peter was distressed that Jesus asked him a third time, "Do you love me?" and said, "Lord, you know everything. You know that I love you." Jesus replied, "Feed my sheep.

There was a lot of grumbling about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," but others, "He deceives the common people."

So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with broken pieces from the five barley loaves left over by the people who had eaten.

For I have given you an example -- you should do just as I have done for you.

You will know at that time that I am in my Father and you are in me and I am in you.

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?

Many of them were saying, "He is possessed by a demon and has lost his mind! Why do you listen to him?"

They said to him, "Where is that man?" He replied, "I don't know."

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone.

The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

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

So the saying circulated among the brothers and sisters that this disciple was not going to die. But Jesus did not say to him that he was not going to die, but rather, "If I want him to live until I come back, what concern is that of yours?"

Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said. They know what I said."

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, "You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!"

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they do not know the one who sent me.

Then Jesus told them plainly, "Lazarus has died,

However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

Righteous Father, even if the world does not know you, I know you, and these men know that you sent me.

(His disciples did not understand these things when they first happened, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written about him and that these things had happened to him.)

Another sharp division took place among the Jewish people because of these words.

I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me."

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

So the crowd who had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead were continuing to testify about it.

Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them, "What do you want?" So they said to him, "Rabbi" (which is translated Teacher), "where are you staying?"

and I am glad for your sake that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

"Do not be afraid, people of Zion; look, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt!"