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

That light shines in the darkness,
yet the darkness did not overcome it.

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

He was in the world,
and the world was created through Him,
yet the world did not recognize Him.

He came to His own,
and His own people did not receive Him.

who were born,
not of blood,
or of the will of the flesh,
or of the will of man,
but of God.

He did not refuse to answer, but he declared: “I am not the Messiah.”

“What then?” they asked him. “Are you Elijah?”

“I am not,” he said.

“Are you the Prophet?”

“No,” he answered.

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

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

“What has this concern of yours to do with Me, woman?” Jesus asked. “My hour has not yet come.”

When the chief servant tasted the water (after it had become wine), he did not know where it came from—though the servants who had drawn the water knew. He called the groom

Jesus, however, would not entrust Himself to them, since He knew them all

and because He did not need anyone to testify about man; for He Himself knew what was in man.

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

Do not be amazed that I told you that you must be born again.

“I assure you: We speak what We know and We testify to what We have seen, but you do not accept Our testimony.

“For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.

For God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.

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

For everyone who practices wicked things hates the light and avoids it, so that his deeds may not be exposed.

since John had not yet been thrown into prison.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Messiah, but I’ve been sent ahead of Him.’

The one who believes in the Son has eternal life, but the one who refuses to believe in the Son will not see life; instead, the wrath of God remains on him.

(though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

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

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

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

Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

But the man who was cured did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away into the crowd that was there.

After this, Jesus found him in the temple complex and said to him, “See, you are well. Do not sin anymore, so that something worse doesn’t happen to you.”

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

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

so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.

“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.

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

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

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

The Father who sent Me has Himself testified about Me. You have not heard His voice at any time, and you haven’t seen His form.

And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.

“I do not accept glory from men,

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

got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. Darkness had already set in, but Jesus had not yet come to them.

The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea knew there had been only one boat. They also knew that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone.

Jesus answered, “I assure you: You are looking for Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.

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

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

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

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

So Jesus said to them, “I assure you: Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the manna your fathers ate—and they died. The one who eats this bread will live forever.”

But there are some among you who don’t believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning those who would not believe and the one who would betray Him.)

After this, Jesus traveled in Galilee, since He did not want to travel in Judea because the Jews were trying to kill Him.

(For not even His brothers believed in Him.)

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

Go up to the festival yourselves. I’m not going up to the festival yet, because My time has not yet fully come.”

After His brothers had gone up to the festival, then He also went up, not openly but secretly.

“Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

Then they tried to seize Him. Yet no one laid a hand on Him because His hour had not yet come.

You will look for Me, but you will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.”

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

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

“No one, Lord,” she answered.

“Neither do I condemn you,” said Jesus. “Go, and from now on do not sin anymore.”]

So the Pharisees said to Him, “You are testifying about Yourself. Your testimony is not valid.”

And if I do judge, My judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent Me judge together.

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple complex. But no one seized Him, because His hour had not come.

“You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”

They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father.

The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, because I always do what pleases Him.”

A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever.

I know you are descendants of Abraham, but you are trying to kill Me because My word is not welcome among you.

But now you are trying to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me.

The one who is from God listens to God’s words. This is why you don’t listen, because you are not from God.”

“I do not have a demon,” Jesus answered. “On the contrary, I honor My Father and you dishonor Me.

I do not seek My glory; the One who seeks it also judges.

We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

He answered, “Whether or not He’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”

If this man were not from God, He wouldn’t be able to do anything.”

Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what He was telling them.

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

But I have other sheep that are not of this fold; I must bring them also, and they will listen to My voice. Then there will be one flock, one shepherd.

But you don’t believe because you are not My sheep.

If I am not doing My Father’s works, don’t believe Me.

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

If anyone walks during the night, he does stumble, because the light is not in him.”

Jesus had not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met Him.

When Mary came to where Jesus was and saw Him, she fell at His feet and told Him, “Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died!”

You’re not considering that it is to your advantage that one man should die for the people rather than the whole nation perish.”

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

and not for the nation only, but also to unite the scattered children of God.

For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me.”

Then a large crowd of the Jews learned He was there. They came not only because of Jesus, but also to see Lazarus the one He had raised from the dead.

His disciples did not understand these things at first. However, when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and that they had done these things to Him.