No one has ever seen God. The unique God, who is close to the Father's side, has revealed him.

So they asked him, "Well then, are you Elijah?" John said, "I am not." "Are you the Prophet?" He answered, "No."

Now those men had been sent from the Pharisees.

John answered them, "I am baptizing with water, but among you stands a man whom you do not know,

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the hometown of Andrew and Peter.

Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and said about him, "Look, a genuine Israeli, in whom there is no deceit!"

Nathaniel asked him, "How do you know me?" Jesus answered him, "Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

Now standing there were six stone water jars used for the Jewish rites of purification, each one holding from two to three measures.

Then he told them, "Now draw some out and take it to the man in charge of the banquet." So they did.

When the man in charge of the banquet tasted the water that had become wine (without knowing where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called for the bridegroom

and told him, "Everyone serves the best wine first, and the cheap kind when people are drunk. But you have kept the best wine until now!"

Jesus, however, did not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people

and didn't need anyone to tell him what people were like, because he himself knew what was in every person.

Now there was a man from the Pharisees, a leader of the Jews, whose name was Nicodemus.

He came to Jesus at night and told him, "Rabbi, we know that you have come from God as a teacher, because no one can perform these signs that you are doing unless God is with him."

The wind blows where it wants to. You hear its sound, but you don't know where it comes from or where it is going. That's the way it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit."

Truly, I tell you emphatically, we know what we're talking about, and we testify about what we've seen. Yet you people do not accept our testimony.

"No one has gone up to heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven.

John replied, "No one can receive anything unless it has been given to them from heaven.

It is the bridegroom who gets the bride, yet the bridegroom's friend, who merely stands by and listens for him, is overjoyed to hear the bridegroom's voice. That's why this joy of mine is now complete.

He testifies about what he has seen and heard, yet no one accepts his testimony.

Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, "Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water."

Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, "I don't have a husband,' because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."

You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews.

Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him.

The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called "the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything."

At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?"

But he told them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?"

You say, don't you, "In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now!

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world."

since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.

When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

The man immediately became well, and he picked up his mat and started walking. Now that day was a Sabbath.

But the one who had been healed did not know who it was, because Jesus had slipped away from the crowd in that place.

But Jesus answered them, "My Father has been working until now, and I, too, am working."

The Father judges no one, but has given all authority to judge to the Son,

Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the time approaches, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear it will live.

There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he gives about me is true.

I know that you do not have the love of God in you.

Now the Passover, the festival of the Jews, was near.

Jesus said this to test him, because he himself knew what he was going to do.

Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." Now there was plenty of grass in that area, so they sat down, numbering about 5,000 men.

The next day, the crowd that had remained on the other side of the sea noticed that only one boat had been there, and no other, and that Jesus had not gotten into that boat with his disciples. Instead, his disciples had gone away by themselves.

They kept saying, "This is Jesus, the son of Joseph, isn't it, whose father and mother we know? So how can he say, "I have come down from heaven'?"

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

But there are some among you who don't believe..." - because Jesus knew from the beginning those who weren't believing, as well as the one who would betray him.

So he said, "That's why I told you that no one can come to me unless it be granted him by the Father."

As a result, many of his disciples turned back and no longer associated with him.

Now he was speaking about Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, because this man was going to betray him, even though he was one of the Twelve.

Now the Jewish Festival of Tents was approaching.

since no one acts in secret if he wants to be known publicly. If you're going to do these things, you should reveal yourself to the world!"

And there was a great deal of discussion about him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is a good man," while others were saying, "No, he is deceiving the crowds!"

Nevertheless, no one would speak openly about him because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders.

If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

And look, he is speaking in public, and they are not saying anything to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Messiah?

We know where this man comes from. But when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

I know him because I've come from him, and he sent me."

Then the Jewish leaders tried to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who were believing in him were to receive, because the Spirit was not yet present and Jesus had not yet been glorified.

Some of them were wanting to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.

The officers answered, "No man ever spoke like that!"

But this mob that does not know the Law they're under a curse!"

They answered him, "You aren't from Galilee, too, are you? Search and see that no prophet comes from Galilee."

Now in the Law, Moses commanded us to stone such women to death. What do you say?"

"No one, sir," she replied. Then Jesus said, "I don't condemn you, either. Go home, and from now on don't sin anymore."

Jesus answered them, "Even though I'm testifying about myself, my testimony is valid because I know where I've come from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I come from or where I'm going.

Jesus replied, "You don't know me or my Father. If you had known me, you would've known my Father, too." He spoke these words in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

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

"I know that you are Abraham's descendants. Yet you are trying to kill me because you've not received what I've told you.

Jesus told them, "If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing what Abraham did. But now you're trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would'nt have done that.

You belong to your father the Devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood for truth, since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie, he speaks in character, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

Then the Jewish leaders told him, "Now we really know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and so did the prophets, but you say, "If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.'

You don't know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him and keep his word.

I must do the work of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is approaching, when no one can work.

Some were saying, "It's him," while others were saying, "No, but it's someone like him." But he himself kept saying, "It's me!"

They asked him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I don't know!"

Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and healed his eyes.

So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had gained his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."

and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"

His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself."

The Jewish leaders summoned the man who had been blind a second time and told him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."

But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"

We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."

The man answered them, "This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he healed my eyes.

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.

Jesus told them, "If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, "We see,' your sin still exists."

I'm the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

No one is taking it from me; 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 is what my Father has commanded me."

Now Hanukkah was taking place in Jerusalem. It was winter,

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

I give them eternal life, they'll never be lost, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.