He came as a witness to testify about the light, so that all might believe because of him.

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

John told the truth about him when he cried out, "This is the person about whom I said, "The one who comes after me ranks higher than me, because he existed before me.'"

"Who are you?" they asked him. "We must give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?"

This is the one about whom I said, "After me comes a man who ranks above me, because he existed before me.'

He told them, "Come and see!" So they went and saw where he was staying, and they remained with him that day. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.

Philip found Nathaniel and told him, "We have found the man about whom Moses in the Law and the Prophets wrote Jesus, the son of Joseph, from Nazareth."

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

But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.

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.

If I have told you people about earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you about heavenly things?

Then a controversy about ritual purification sprang up between a certain Jew and John's disciples,

so they went to John and told him, "Rabbi, the man who was with you on the other side of the Jordan, the one about whom you testified look, he's baptizing, and everyone is going to him!"

The one who comes from above is superior to everything. The one who is of the earth belongs to the earth and speaks about earthly things. The one who comes from heaven is superior to everything.

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

Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

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

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because he was about to die.

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

You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.

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

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.

Then Jesus, realizing that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, withdrew again to the hillside by himself.

After they had rowed about 25 or 30 stadia, they saw Jesus walking on the sea toward their boat. They became terrified.

Then the Jewish leaders began grumbling about him because he said, "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

But Jesus, knowing within himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, asked them, "Does this offend you?

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.

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.

The Pharisees heard the crowd debating these things about him, so the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest Jesus.

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.

The Pharisees told him, "You're testifying about yourself. Your testimony isn't valid."

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.

I'm testifying about myself, and the Father who sent me is testifying about me."

Jesus told them, "What have I been telling you all along? I have much to say about you and to condemn you for. But the one who sent me is truthful, and what I've heard from him I declare to the world."

They didn't realize that he was talking to them about the Father.

So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

Many people came to him and kept saying, "John never performed a sign, but everything that John said about this man is true!"

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was speaking about resting or sleeping.

Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about fifteen stadia away,

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.

He said this, not because he cared about the destitute, but because he was a thief. He was in charge of the moneybag and would steal what was put into it.

At first, his disciples didn't understand these things. However, when Jesus had been glorified, they remembered that these things had been written about him and that people had done these things to him.

He said this to indicate the kind of death he was about to die.

Isaiah said this when he saw his glory and spoke about him.

I'm not talking about all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But the Scripture must be fulfilled: "The one who ate bread with me has turned against me.'

The disciples began looking at one another, completely mystified about whom he was speaking.

So Simon Peter motioned to this man to ask Jesus about whom he was speaking.

But I've told you this, so that when the time comes you'll remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you this in the beginning, because I was still with you."

They kept saying, "What is this "in a little while' that he keeps talking about? We don't know what he means."

"I have said these things to you in figurative language. The time is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figurative language, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his own teaching.

Jesus replied, "Are you asking this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?"

Now it was the Preparation Day for the Passover, about noon. He told the Jewish leaders, "Here is your king!"

Nicodemus, the man who had first come to Jesus at night, also arrived, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes weighing about 100 litra.

But the other disciples came in the boat, dragging the net full of fish. They were only about 200 cubits away from the shore.

When Peter saw him, he said, "Lord, what about him?"