And the light goes on shining in the dark; it is not overcome by the dark.

He himself was not the light: he was sent to give witness about the light.

He came to the things which were his and his people did not take him to their hearts.

Whose birth was from God and not from blood, or from an impulse of the flesh and man's desire.

He said quite openly and straightforwardly, I am not the Christ.

And they said to him, What then? Are you Elijah? And he said, I am not. Are you the prophet? And his answer was, I am not.

And they put this question to him, saying, Why then are you giving baptism if you are not the Christ, or Elijah, or the prophet?

It is he who is coming after me; I am not good enough to undo his shoes.

When they had not enough wine, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine.

Jesus said to her, Woman, this is not your business; my time is still to come.

And said to him, Every man first puts out his best wine and when all have had enough he puts out what is not so good; but you have kept the good wine till now.

After this he went down to Capernaum, with his mother, his brothers, and his disciples, and they were there not more than two or three days.

And to those who were trading in doves he said, Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a market.

But Jesus did not have faith in them, because he had knowledge of them all.

He had no need for any witness about man; for he himself had knowledge of what was in man.

He came to Jesus by night and said to him, Rabbi, we are certain that you have come from God as a teacher, because no man would be able to do these signs which you do if God was not with him.

Jesus said in answer, Truly, I say to you, If a man's birth is not from water and from the Spirit, it is not possible for him to go into the kingdom of God.

Do not be surprised that I say to you, It is necessary for you to have a second birth.

Truly, I say to you, We say that of which we have knowledge; we give witness of what we have seen; and you do not take our witness to be true.

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.

God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him.

The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.

The light is hated by everyone whose acts are evil and he does not come to the light for fear that his acts will be seen.

For at this time John had not been put into prison.

And this was John's answer: A man is unable to have anything if it is not given to him from heaven.

You yourselves give witness that I said, I am not the Christ. What I said was, I am sent before the Christ.

For he whom God has sent says God's words; and God does not give him the Spirit by measure.

He who has faith in the Son has eternal life; but he who has not faith in the Son will not see life; God's wrath is resting on him.

(Though, in fact, it was his disciples who gave baptism, not Jesus himself),

Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:

But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.

You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.

Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.

At that point the disciples came back, and they were surprised to see him talking to a woman; but not one of them said to him, What is your purpose? or, Why are you talking to her?

And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.

For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.

So Jesus made answer and said, Truly I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything himself; he is able to do only what he sees the Father doing; whatever the Father does the Son does it in the same way.

The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son;

Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life.

Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead,

If I gave witness about myself, my witness would not be true.

But I have no need of a man's witness: I only say these things so that you may have salvation.

And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.

And you have not kept his word in your hearts, because you have not faith in him whom he has sent.

I do not take honour from men;

I have come in my Father's name, and your hearts are not open to me. If another comes with no other authority but himself, you will give him your approval.

Philip made answer, Bread to the value of two hundred pence would not be enough even to give everyone a little.

Then Jesus took the cakes and having given praise to God, he gave them to the people who were seated, and the fishes in the same way, as much as they had need of.

And they took a boat and went across the sea in the direction of Capernaum. By then it was dark and still Jesus had not come to them.

The day after, the people who were on the other side of the sea saw that only one small boat had been there, that Jesus had not gone in that boat with the disciples, but that the disciples had gone away by themselves.

So when the people saw that Jesus was not there, or his disciples, they got into those boats and went over to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

Jesus, answering them, said, Truly I say to you, You come after me, not because you saw signs, but because you were given the bread and had enough.

Let your work not be for the food which comes to an end, but for the food which goes on for eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for on him has God the Father put his mark.

Jesus then said to them, Truly I say to you, What Moses gave you was not the bread from heaven; it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven.

And this was the answer of Jesus: I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never be in need of food, and he who has faith in me will never be in need of drink.

Whatever the Father gives to me will come to me; and I will not send away anyone who comes to me.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do my pleasure, but the pleasure of him who sent me.

And this is the pleasure of him who sent me, that I am not to let out of my hands anything which he has given me, but I am to give it new life on the last day.

And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we have seen? How is it then that he now says, I have come down from heaven?

Jesus made answer and said, Do not say things against me, one to another.

No man is able to come to me if the Father who sent me does not give him the desire to come: and I will take him up from the dead on the last day.

Not that anyone has ever seen the Father; only he who is from God, he has seen the Father.

Then Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you, If you do not take the flesh of the Son of man for food, and if you do not take his blood for drink, you have no life in you.

This is the bread which has come down from heaven. It is not like the food which your fathers had: they took of the manna, and are dead; but he who takes this bread for food will have life for ever.

And he said, This is why I said to you, No man is able to come to me if he is not given the power to do so by the Father.

Then Jesus said, Did I not make a selection of you, the twelve, and one of you is a son of the Evil One?

After this, Jesus went from place to place in Galilee. He did not go about in Judaea, because the Jews were looking for a chance to put him to death.

It is not possible for you to be hated by the world; but I am hated by it, because I give witness that what it does is evil.

Go you up to the feast: I am not going up now to the feast because my time has not fully come.

But after his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he went up, not publicly, but in secret.

Jesus gave them this answer: It is not my teaching, but his who sent me.

Did not Moses give you the law? Even so, not one of you keeps the law. Why have you a desire to put me to death?

Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

If a child is given circumcision on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

Let not your decisions be based on what you see, but on righteousness.

Then some of the people of Jerusalem said, Is not this the man whose death is desired?

Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.

You will be looking for me, and you will not see me: and where I am you may not come.

So the Jews said among themselves, To what place is he going where we will not see him? will he go to the Jews living among the Greeks and become the teacher of the Greeks?

What is this saying of his, You will be looking for me and will not see me, and where I am you may not come?

On the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus got up and said in a loud voice, If any man is in need of drink let him come to me and I will give it to him.

This he said of the Spirit which would be given to those who had faith in him: the Spirit had not been given then, because the glory of Jesus was still to come.

Others said, This is the Christ. But others said, Not so; will the Christ come from Galilee?

Do not the Writings say that the Christ comes of the seed of David and from Beth-lehem, the little town where David was?

Then the servants went back to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, Why have you not got him with you?

And she said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said, And I do not give a decision against you: go, and never do wrong again.]

Then again Jesus said to them, I am the light of the world; he who comes with me will not be walking in the dark but will have the light of life.

So the Pharisees said to him, The witness you give is about yourself: your witness is not true.

Even if I am judging, my decision is right, because I am not by myself--with me is the Father who sent me.

Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.

So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?

And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.

For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.

They did not see that his words were about the Father.

He who sent me is with me; he has not gone from me, because at all times I do the things which are pleasing to him.

Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does.

But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.